HeyJaredOne Eye, One Hand
I left one eye in Mimir's Well, and lost my right hand. I am somewhat askew & strange these days.
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“lost in the sea’s lost colour” (opens the original)
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why I am so annoying (opens the original)
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I’ve been re-reading Hermann Hesse’s Glass Bead Game after 25 years, this time in German and English. The novel failed to impress my younger 10-fingered self; it’s much more interesting now I’m old & vicious. The protagonist, Joseph Knecht is a modest scholar who ends up as head of a quasi-monastic but secular order devoted to “the Glass Bead game”, a way of tracing connections between science and art. Knecht is something of an inadvertent “friend-winner” to use a derogatory term from my schoold
“acknowledge the starkness” (opens the original)
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the old speech (opens the original)
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In an autumnal mood, I decided to listen to Erich von Manstein at Nuremberg:Many comments refer to his clear, precise German (and his surprisingly high-pitched voice, something he had in common with Patton). I’ve often noted that men in the past were better able to speak without ums and ahs and “you know what I mean” fillers. Three possible causes:1. People were just much more intelligent then than now. British IQ seems to have peaked in the late 19th Century, and as best I recall the average wa
“we are geometricians only by chance” (opens the original)
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