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E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · Jun 5

Poetry breaks the syllogism.

— Walter Brueggemann

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E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 4h

yes! makes me crazy!

E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 9h

i still am a rube. just out here looking for the friendliest front porch on the internet.

E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 1d

Pynchon sits down to a cup of coffee in an original Wassily B3 which is angled just so. He glances at the old Model 500 with its rotary dial sitting on the sidetable, and he remembers all the years Cormac called and how they laughed about Roth waiting by the phone. “Well, I guess I could call Bob.”

E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 1d

Mail.

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E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 1d

lol

E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 1d

in the meantime, Liz Lopatto is on it:

Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed

Bari Weiss has sold her company, The Free Press, to manage the decline of broadcast news at CBS. How many ways can it go wrong?

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E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 1d

may we live to see the day when john dickerson stands up and says this is all bullshit with his full chest and then unfurls a roll of receipts ten miles long.

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E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 2d

points for following geography instead of state lines in the south.

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E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 4d

have you heard his recently released cover of Songbird?

Songbird

YouTube video by Waylon Jennings - Topic

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E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 5d

Phenomenology Friday

Insofar as I have a body, I am not a pure consciousness, but am engaged in the world through this body with the aid of which I perceive. […] The role of philosophy is to make us rediscover this bond with the world that precedes thought itself.

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Merleau-Ponty. The Merleau-Ponty Reader. Toadvine and Lawler, editors. Cover.

Merleau-Ponty. The Contemporary Philosophical Movement.

From an interview with Maurice Fleurent, Carrefour, no. 92 (23 May 1946).

“The Phenomenology of Perception attempts to answer a question I asked myself ten years ago and which, I think, all philosophers of my generation have asked themselves: how to escape idealism without falling back into the naivete of realism?”

Merleau-Ponty. The Contemporary Philosophical Movement.

“[For instance, my] body is not an object: it is the medium of all my relations with the world.
Insofar as I have a body, I am not a pure consciousness, but am engaged in the world through this body with the aid of which I perceive. I do not merely know the world; as Heidegger says, I am in the world. The role of philosophy is to make us rediscover this bond with the world that precedes thought itself.

On another level, you see the consequences: if man is not only a thinking subject but a situated subject, our relations with others cannot, from the beginning, be the relation of a pure thought with a pure thought.
They are dominated by differences of situation; classical liberal politics ap pear abstract. Generally speaking, philosophy rediscovers a "thickness" and a relation with concrete problems it had lost when it became pure reflection on science.”

Merleau-Ponty. The Contemporary Philosophical Movement.

“I have known Sartre for twenty years. I have had countless conversations with him, and it would be difficult for me to mea sure how much I owe him. I am in complete agreement with him when it comes to defining the human through a certain number of contradictions such as those of consciousness and object, in-itself and for-itself, or that of the for-itself and the for-others. My thinking would differ from his to the extent that he describes these fundamental antitheses as insurmountable.

On the contrary, it seems to me that they are overcome in the very fact that we live, that we perceive things, that we perceive others. In this sense, the synthesis is given along with the antithesis. This is particularly important in the domain of philosophy, history, and politics.

Sartre seems to have thought for a long time that there was no middle ground between a dogmatic philosophy of history, a fatalism, and the philosophy of freedom according to which history has no sense other than that which we decide to give it. In my opinion, there is, on the contrary, a science of history that takes shape in the facts and that we have only to complete, this human intervention being, moreover, a decisive one.

But these are questions to be examined. On this topic, Sartre has not yet expressed himself fully, and one has never demanded of a philosopher that he say, at the age of forty, his last word on all of the nuances of his thought.”

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E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 6d

the best unbiased commentary in football: Allaster McKallaster!

McKallaster Scottish Commentary on Scotland 2 Spain 0. Scott McTominay. March 28, 2023

YouTube video by McKallaster

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E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 7d

bill watterson knows what is up.

Watterson. Calvin and Hobbes.

Two panels. In the first, Calvin points a thin line of water: “Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt.” In the second, a wider frame showing the little line of water and a few scrub trees and Calvin looking at Hobbes with elation: “I’d say our afternoon just got booked solid.”

E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 7d

i got the cure for male loneliness is what i’m saying.

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E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 7d

we have a drainage problem at the church house playground, and we talked about hiring someone, but on sunday i just started digging by hand. i’ve been at it for a bit every evening since. anyway, on two separate evenings some random guy sees me working and they walk over and ask to help.

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Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 7d

Oh, yeah. For decades, Chicago’s Greek tragedies have only been published in multiple volumes by author & small multi-author anthologies. Now we have the whole shebang, all the key plays, in a big paperback. And it’s only $25!

At your local bookstore momentarily.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

A paperback of The Greek Tragedies: Seventeen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides.

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E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 7d

i would agree. and while his critique of how the dominant symbols of the existing cultural framework frequently devolve into mere idols in their institutional settings is often correct, it seems to me, his own alternative symbolics is also finite and cannot rise to the level of ultimate concern.

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E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 7d

same question about “earth”?

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E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 7d

me, raising my hand: E. Reed with Phenomenology Friday. Question for Freddy N.

Is that “self” autonomous, atomistic, and substantial? or embedded, porous, and processional?

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E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 8d

yeah, yeah, goals are great. but give me stalwart defending and beautiful crosses.

E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 8d

it has been a delight to follow the league promotions, but watching Max Cleworth and Ryan Barnett come up from the National League and find their footing in the Championship to keep Wrexham in the middle of the table gives me life.

E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 8d

Wrexham hold Leicester City to a draw at the King Power!

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E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 8d

almost as if hermeneutics is a universal concern.

E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 8d

it frankly warms my heart my timeline is filled to the brim with chunk after chunk of a judge’s ruling.

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E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 8d

bring your crew down here and i’ll take you out on the boat.

E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 10d

such a good church day i didn’t have any time to post until we sent children to bed and we finally put our feet up.