Moonie's Ramblings

[Prof. Moonie]

*chuckles* I just referenced to the episode of "To The Ends of the Earth" in one of my responses to a classmate's CR for 17th/18th C. Lit. class. ^.^;  

[Prof. Moonie]

"Here I referred to the extraordinary work of a whole range of non-Western writers and activists, including Tagore, Fanon, C.L. R. James, Yeats, and many others, figures who have given integrity to anti-imperialist culture resistance." ~ Edward W. Said

Interesting to actually come across a mention of Fanon after reading his book - Black Skin White Masks.  

[Prof. Moonie]

La di da...  

[Prof. Moonie]

*dances to music*  

[Prof. Moonie]

Okay, I'm going to go read my other homework assignment in the living room. Otherwise, I'll keep getting distracted by random stuff on the computer. So, talk to you later.

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[Prof. Moonie]

Only stopping by briefly to write down some particular quotes that have stood out to me in the book I'm reading... and, as you may have noticed, a brief intermission of color-ness (since I want to do this fairly quickly and have no time to copy the color codes over into TekTek).

"(These entertainments were, by analogy, the crossword puzzles and sudoko for the privileged of the period.) The answers to these riddles all relate to love: courtly, requited and unrequited, and accompanied by emotions such as longing and jealousy..." (xi)

"...the kitchen is the scene of philosophical ferment and scientific experiment (par. 28 )..." (34)  

[Prof. Moonie]

Back again to post more quotes, which I'll do periodically as I come across them. Once again I won't be using any colors at this time - but do not fear, the colors will return again when I am not wrestling with time to finish reading such a large text, and to type out the quotes quickly.

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"For when I consider how the Angelic Doctor, St. Thomas Aquinas, on being asked of his silence before his teacher Albertus Magnus, responded that he kept quiet because he could say nothing worthy of Albertus, then how much more fitting it is that I should keep quiet - not like the Saint from modesty, but rather because, in truth, I am unable to say anything worthy of you." (39)

Reminds me a bit of King Lear and his youngest daughter.  

[Prof. Moonie]

"In this way, of those things that cannot be spoken, it must be said that they cannot be spoken, so that it may be known that silence is kept not for lack of things to say, but because the many things there are to say cannot be contained in mere words." (70)  

[Prof. Moonie]

"With this question comes the reflection that even learned men were forbidden to read the Song of Songs, and indeed Genesis, before they reached the age of thirty: the latter text because of its difficulty, and the former so that with the sweetness of those epithalamiums, imprudent youth might not be stirred to carnal feelings." (45)

It is intriguing that Sor Juana states that Genesis is a difficult piece. From what I've read of the Bible, Genesis is probably one of more easier selections to understand the rest. I think there are other pieces that could be considered "difficult," when being compared with Genesis.  

[Prof. Moonie]

"...y ad impossibilia nemo tenetur..." (46)

"..."no one is obliged to do the impossible." (47)  

[Prof. Moonie]

"I remember that in those days, though I was as greedy for treats as children usually are at that age, I would abstain from eating cheese, because I heard tell that it made people stupid, and the desire to learn was stronger for me than the desire to eat - powerful as this is in children." (49)

The cheese part amuses me. I have never heard such... tales, if I may be so bold.  

[Prof. Moonie]

"And my interest was so intense, that although in women (and especially in the very bloom of youth) the natural adornment of hair is so esteemed, I would cut off four to six fingerlengths of my hair, measuring how long it had been before. And I made myself a rule that if by the time it had grown back to the same length I did not know such and such a thing that I intended to study, then I would cut my hair off again to punish my dull-wittedness." (51)

I could never do such a thing; I love my long hair way too much. Hence the reason why I despise my hair being any shorter than my shoulders, and refuse to dye it ((it's already a beautiful color on it's own, and it naturally changes colors during the seasons [brown during the winter, golden blond during the spring and summer (due to being bleached by the sun), and a strawberry blond during the fall])).  

[Prof. Moonie]

"...for who could fathom the style of the Queen of Sciences without knowing that of her handmaidens?" (53)

I wonder... what is this Queen of Sciences? Is it the Holy Theology? Or is it the arts? I can't really tell... at least from how I'm reading it.  

[Prof. Moonie]

Off to watch TV. Later.  

[Prof. Moonie]

Hello everyone. I'm back. And with color again, lol.