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I'm always a fan of the bringing together of the sophisticated and the profane. Thanks for sharing.
by DubiousPusher 7y ago
I'm always a fan of the bringing together of the sophisticated and the profane. Thanks for sharing.
- monkeycantype 7y agoThis sounds like something I'm going to like. My uncle, who once taught ancient greek at johns hopkins, explained to me the ancient greek understanding of sacred and profane was that profane was the normal relationship with reality, and what was outside of that was sacred. The example he gave was that in order to be executed, prisoners first had to be made sacred, so that killing them wasn't a transgression.
- ethn 7y agoYou would love Eliade’s The Sacred and Profane. This also is a good prerequisite to understand Girard’s work.
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- MaysonL 7y agoThere was an astronomy prof at my college who collected Chaplin (and other silent) movies and would show them throughout the year, with his wonderful ragtime piano accompaniment. https://www.swarthmore.edu/a-brief-history/1963-astronomer-peter-van-de-kamp-discovers-planetary-system https://www.swarthmore.edu/a-brief-history/1963-astronomer-p... https://aas.org/obituaries/peter-van-de-kamp-1901-1995 https://aas.org/obituaries/peter-van-de-kamp-1901-1995
- IIAOPSW 7y agoI got some mad eloquent words for your ass.