V2nd, C3

[alice wellintown]

References
1. Adams, Henry. (1910). A Letter to American Teachers of History.
(PDF). Washington.
2. James, William. (1910). “Letter: To Henry Adams”, June 17,
Bad-Nauheim in The Letters of William James (pgs. 343-47), 1920, by
William James, Henry James, Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press.
3. Richardson, Robert D. (2007). William James: In the Maelstrom of
American Modernism: a Biography (pgs. 518-19). Houghton Mifflin
Harcourt.
4. (a) Thayer, William, R. “Vagaries of Historians”, Presidential
address prepared to be read before the American Historical
Association, at Cleveland, Dec. 28, 1918. (Reprinted from the American
Historical Review, January, 1919).
(b) Thayer, William R. (1921). “Vagaries of Historians”. Annual Report
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G.P.O.


On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 9:16 PM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> You may want to skim Adams on Darwin. Didn't Darwin and Kelvin wrestle
> with the age of the earth, as Henry does, when searching for his
> geological father in his Chapter on Darwin? Yeah, maybe that yellow
> cloud is heat death of the universe.
>
> not so sure about Bernay here, but I do find the conradian secret
> sharing and dostoyevskian doubling of double maltese secret agents and
> falcons narrative within narrative a bit like not in Kansas anymore
> and, as I'm always reading about herds and following the yellowbrick
> road in my FT and WSJ and, as this is a major theme of Adams, where
> the art experts can not even tell a novice why or if a painting is
> worth anything (Adams's chapter on art--xiv) and as the banks go belly
> up on exuberance and excessive tulip madness and mobs and mobs of
> crowds...I wuz looking to Mark's reading of the truly exciting
> chapters from Adams--like Chaos.
>
>
>
> http://cognet.mit.edu/library/books/mitpress/0262540835/cache/chpt17.pdf
>