Now that he is retired, Norman Finkelstein should build a second carrier as audio narrator of novels and poetry. His voice, especially when reading his poems, is mesmerizing.
DBH’s remarks about the fleetingness of inspiration and the inability to recreate your past works reminded me of a repeating theme in Tolkien’s works (from the Silmarils to the elven rings of power). As Fëanor said in the Silmarillion, “For the less even as for the greater there is some deed that he may accomplish but once only; and in that deed his heart shall rest.”
Dr. Hart, I am not surprised to hear that you love Arthurian legends. Don’t you sometimes regret the fact that Milton abandoned his plans to write an epic based on them? Of course, I wouldn’t trade Paradise Lost for an unrealized project, but I wish that he had written both of them. There are so many great works in this field in prose and poetry, films and music, but I inclined to believe that Milton would have written the greatest of them all.
I’ve a few questions for the next Q&A, not least among them what you make of the late Schelling’s claim that consciousness is the “immerwährender” generation of the Son or whether Henry’s right that auto-affection is a mode necessarily prior to intentionality, but more pressingly: some few of us (qui legit intellegat) have been puzzling over why you’ve excised that fetching army green blazer — we’ve taken to calling it the “comrade jacket” — from your sartorial cycle. Not only is it handsome and dignified in a proletarian sort of way; it also complements your features nicely.
Hm, it appears he & I know several of the same people. Which makes sense. (I shouldn't be pedantic & say that that is not what commodity fetishism means—Marx uses it to describe how social relations between people become perverted & appear to be relations between things.)
I'll listen to any conversation that touches on Little, Big & Ægypt.
Many thanks for this delightful conversation.
Now that he is retired, Norman Finkelstein should build a second carrier as audio narrator of novels and poetry. His voice, especially when reading his poems, is mesmerizing.
DBH’s remarks about the fleetingness of inspiration and the inability to recreate your past works reminded me of a repeating theme in Tolkien’s works (from the Silmarils to the elven rings of power). As Fëanor said in the Silmarillion, “For the less even as for the greater there is some deed that he may accomplish but once only; and in that deed his heart shall rest.”
Dr. Hart, I am not surprised to hear that you love Arthurian legends. Don’t you sometimes regret the fact that Milton abandoned his plans to write an epic based on them? Of course, I wouldn’t trade Paradise Lost for an unrealized project, but I wish that he had written both of them. There are so many great works in this field in prose and poetry, films and music, but I inclined to believe that Milton would have written the greatest of them all.
Fabulous as ever.
I’ve a few questions for the next Q&A, not least among them what you make of the late Schelling’s claim that consciousness is the “immerwährender” generation of the Son or whether Henry’s right that auto-affection is a mode necessarily prior to intentionality, but more pressingly: some few of us (qui legit intellegat) have been puzzling over why you’ve excised that fetching army green blazer — we’ve taken to calling it the “comrade jacket” — from your sartorial cycle. Not only is it handsome and dignified in a proletarian sort of way; it also complements your features nicely.
Hm, it appears he & I know several of the same people. Which makes sense. (I shouldn't be pedantic & say that that is not what commodity fetishism means—Marx uses it to describe how social relations between people become perverted & appear to be relations between things.)
I'll listen to any conversation that touches on Little, Big & Ægypt.
Wonderful conversation thank you. What is the splendid picture behind you, David?
Such a delightful discussion! “If there is a Muse make sure you don’t make her mad by trying to explain everything”.
'ere long' :)