...if I have succeeded...my last wish is that a highter and indestructible bond of the beautiful and the true may have been tied which will keep us forever firmly united.

--Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Whenever the utopiadisappears, history ceases to be a process leading to an ultimate end. The frame of reference according to which we evaluate facts varnishes and we are left with a series of events all equal as far as their inner significance is concerned.

--Karl Mannheim

Come to our wll run dersert

Where anguish arrives by cable

And the deadly sins may be bought in tins

With instructions on the label.

--W.H.Auden

For unto you is paradise opened, the tree of life is planted, the time to come is prepared, plenteousness is made ready, a city is builded, and rest is allowed, yea perfect goodness and wisdom.

The root of evil is sealed up from you, weakness and the moth is hid from hou, and corruption is fled into hell to be forgotten.

Sorrows are passed, and in the end is shewed the treasure of immortality.

-- 2 Esdras 8:52-4

Where we do not reflect on myth but truly live in it there is no cleft between the actual reality of perception and the world of mythical fantasy.

-- Ernst Cassirer

From the book ''Collage City".

It is a book need to be read thousand times before I can comprehend it... unfortunately, the book review of 400 hundred words is due this Wednesday.

Man, ina word, has no natur; what he has is...history. Expressed differently: what nature is to things, history, res gestae, is to man.

The only radical differencce between human history and 'natural' history is that the former cannever begin agian... the chimpanzee and the orangutan are distinguished from man not by what is known strictly speaking as intelligence, but because they have far less memory. Every morning the poor beasts have to face almost total oblivion of what they lived through the day before, and their intellect has to work with a minimum fund of experience. Similarly, the tiger of today is identical with that of six thousand years ago, each on having to begin his life as a tiger form the beginning as if none had existed before him... Breaking the continuity with the past, is a lowering of man and a plagiarism of the orangutan.

-- Jose Ortega Y Gasset

From here, the writer stresses the importance of 'continuity', the collage of the history and of the patterns.

blueberry 在 2/28/2005 5:11:01 PM 说:

hehe

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wawa 在 2/28/2005 4:36:30 PM 说:

the first and most important thing i learn here is the art of crapping.

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wawa 在 2/28/2005 4:35:37 PM 说:

going to crap about the review, any how...

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blueberry 在 2/28/2005 4:33:49 PM 说:

me lost too. sigh.
maybe can start from parts that are not so @#$% first. do it slowly.add oil:)

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