tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9501938.post975367772812088825..comments2023-11-05T08:01:10.010+00:00Comments on Think of England: Crimes against natureBrithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00390560583798960760noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9501938.post-6479157121583872622008-12-03T09:16:00.000+00:002008-12-03T09:16:00.000+00:00Thanks, Skipper. It ain't going to be daily though...Thanks, Skipper. It ain't going to be daily though. But then who is these days?Brithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00390560583798960760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9501938.post-34316008900132205532008-12-03T01:15:00.000+00:002008-12-03T01:15:00.000+00:00BTW -- thanks for resuming blogging.One Lileks-qua...BTW -- thanks for resuming blogging.<BR/><BR/>One Lileks-quality talent just isn't enough.Hey Skipperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10798930502187234974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9501938.post-70063320042538224142008-12-03T01:14:00.000+00:002008-12-03T01:14:00.000+00:00Darwin couldn’t reconcile that with a Nature-creat...<I>Darwin couldn’t reconcile that with a Nature-creating God, even if man is separate from nature. And who wouldn’t want to be separate from nature, if nature is that meaninglessly cruel wasp? Screw Buddhism, we’re better than that. But of course Darwinist science itself has humbled man by putting him firmly back into nature, which means we’re fundamentally made of the same stuff as the Hey Skipperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10798930502187234974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9501938.post-17229886351108555802008-11-29T19:09:00.000+00:002008-11-29T19:09:00.000+00:00I see the 'lie' as being a lie to humanity itself....I see the 'lie' as being a lie to humanity itself. If Marlow accepts Kurtz's vision of the world, then he cannot go on living. He too must go mad. Even though it's paradoxical, the ultimate moral act is to know there is no morality yet to act as though there is.<BR/><BR/>Coppola sort of admits this in his recut 'Apocalypse Now', which is his version of Heart of Darkness. It used to end with Uncle Dick Madeleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01124053234469634414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9501938.post-68474054780169937642008-11-29T18:18:00.000+00:002008-11-29T18:18:00.000+00:00Think of England welcomes and indeed, celebrates p...Think of England welcomes and indeed, celebrates pretension, Dick.<BR/><BR/>I believe I catch your drift, though I read Heart of Darkness as being more bleak than that. Or perhaps it isn't. Kurtz sees the truth of fallen but godless man and loses his marbles. Then the main guy goes back and tells a white lie to Kurtz's lady to make her feel better. That's either depressing or uplifting depending Brithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00390560583798960760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9501938.post-8741986252638507052008-11-29T17:01:00.000+00:002008-11-29T17:01:00.000+00:00Such a good post that I had to came back to it. Hu...Such a good post that I had to came back to it. Hughes (and indeed Plath) are two poets that always surprise me by how good they are and always on the cusp of making these moral statements. There’s a bit in Plath that reminds me of this; it’s the shrug of the shoulders at the end of ‘Two Lovers and a Beachcomber by the Real Sea’. <BR/><BR/>Water will run by; the actual sun<BR/>Will scrupulously Uncle Dick Madeleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01124053234469634414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9501938.post-46351194191774952292008-11-29T09:44:00.000+00:002008-11-29T09:44:00.000+00:00Thanks, Dick.Thanks, Dick.Brithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00390560583798960760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9501938.post-8925299386039067762008-11-28T23:37:00.000+00:002008-11-28T23:37:00.000+00:00That wasp thing has a good idea if you ask me... n...That wasp thing has a good idea if you ask me... not that you did.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9501938.post-10111563739594281332008-11-28T20:19:00.000+00:002008-11-28T20:19:00.000+00:00PS. Nice to see you back blogging. You disappeared...PS. Nice to see you back blogging. You disappeared just when I'd found you last time.Uncle Dick Madeleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01124053234469634414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9501938.post-71558083186908238972008-11-28T20:16:00.000+00:002008-11-28T20:16:00.000+00:00Honoured to be in your blogroll. Trust I'm friend ...Honoured to be in your blogroll. Trust I'm friend not foe. ;o)Uncle Dick Madeleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01124053234469634414noreply@blogger.com