-- Carey Harrison, in The San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
My attitude is that ideally a rambling should be not a carefully thought out statement of views, but rather a record of a flow of thoughts going through my mind during a particular brief period. On the other hand, if I've said something that I later think is clearly stupid or wrong (a not uncommon occurence!), I'm not going to let that continue to appear over my name, so there is a certain amount of editing and restructuring in all the articles here.
Models, Creativity, and Performance Art
Ramblings on Education and Literature
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This ramble starts off with what are in retrospect some totally silly
comments about the newsgroup sci.psychology.misc, and then seems
to go on to range over most of the known academic universe.
What really pleases me is when someone says, "Your article gave me some really interesting ideas, but I don't think that they were the ideas you intended at all." That is precisely what I did intend.
Thoughts on Graduate School
Nude Dancers
"I Let Them Play"
How to Be a Fascinating Woman
Or at least this is how Lou Andreas-Salomé apparently did it. She had relationships with Nietzsche, Rilke, and Freud, among others, and was the model for the character Lulu in Alban Berg's opera of that name.This is my commentary on an article in the San Francisco Chronicle by Jane Ganahl, reviewing the book Seductress: Women Who Ravished the World and Their Lost Art of Love by Betsy Prioleau.
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do --- Especially If the Other Person Won't Cooperate
Confessions of a Shy Man
Are Universities Bastions of Orthodoxy?
Vermeer and Norman Rockwell
Some comments on "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot
Upheavals, Audiobooks, Faulkner and Thomas Mann
Reading Poetry Aloud
Interpretation and Literary Criticism
Academic Study and Creative Writing
Longing to Create
Popular Music as an Art Form
Literature and Popular Culture
Today's Avant Garde
Substance and Craft in Poetry
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Poetry
The American Poetry Wax Museum
--- Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound's ABC of Reading
Memories of Pound at St. Elizabeths
Ezra Pound, Treason, Fascism, and Anti-semitism
(Revised, July, 2001.)What was Ezra Pound Like?
Reading Ezra Pound's Cantos (Revised June, 2001)
Thoughts on Shakespeare
My Personas
The Bean-counters versus the Cowboys in Scientific Research
Sentences and Meaning
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These are some amateur musings on language and meaning.
Needless to say, there's been a great deal of more expert literature
written on this subject by philosophers and linguists,
very little of which I am familiar with.
But I think that my articles raise some of the interesting issues,
and are more readable than tomes on philosophy and linguistics.
"Isaac Asimov died recently."
The importance of good taste in scientific work.
Thoughts in response to PBS's piece on Richard Feynman.
(Note added March, 1996:
For those who want a much more scientific and scholarly discussion of
the issues in these articles,
I strongly recommend the book
Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things
(What Categories Reveal About the Mind)
by
George Lakoff of UC Berkeley,
originally published in 1987 by the University of Chicago Press,
republished in soft cover in 1990.
Chapter Two of this book puts my own ideas expressed in these articles
into a much more scholarly perspective.)
Guy Davenport on Wittgenstein
On Science and psychology
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