tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post7218641992003241457..comments2024-03-28T19:56:32.848-05:00Comments on Anecdotal Evidence: `Undiscovered Regions of Thought'Patrick Kurphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08436175583386298032noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-2930500293608460432010-02-11T21:25:42.558-06:002010-02-11T21:25:42.558-06:00A fine post. You bring to mind again that familiar...A fine post. You bring to mind again that familiar passage from "The Poet":<br /><br />"An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward, when we arrive at the precise sense of the author."<br /><br />Best,<br />MarkMark Richardsonhttp://marksrichardson.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-22116400110103491042009-05-22T05:00:41.672-05:002009-05-22T05:00:41.672-05:00lovely words!
It may seem stupid, but I have bee...lovely words!<br /><br /> It may seem stupid, but I have been 'saving up' to read Whitman & Thoreau, with Emerson to come if & when I have had time to give the previous two a thorough appraisal!wormhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02802335627720182532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-77158769260220560242009-05-21T15:30:52.284-05:002009-05-21T15:30:52.284-05:00This also harmonizes nicely with some comments I j...This also harmonizes nicely with some comments I just read by Charles Lamb in response to Wordsworth's "The Cumberland Beggar." In a letter to Wordsworth, Lamb wrote, "an intelligent reader finds a sort of insult in being told, I will teach you how to think upon this subject. . . . [There is] an unwritten compact between Author and reader: I will tell you a story, and I suppose you will understand it."Levi Stahlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11094919454842047688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-73946724198860671422009-05-21T11:27:30.198-05:002009-05-21T11:27:30.198-05:00Great post! You wrote, “The most interesting writ...Great post! You wrote, “The most interesting writing is that which does not quite satisfy the reader. Try and leave a little thinking for him; that will be better for both . . . A little guessing does him no harm, so I would assist him with no connections.”<br /><br />I don't know if you have read anything by Rowan Williams, the current Archbishop of Canterbury, but this is a statement that applies with full force to his (sometimes difficult) writing.An Anxious Anglicanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16630532668798784975noreply@blogger.com