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“We should not be satisfied with either biography or bibliography;
we must reach a secret point where the anecdote of life and the aphorism of thought
amount to one and the same thing” (The Logic of Sense 128).
— Deleuze (citing Nietzsche’s method for invention).
M 05-Apr Internet Invention Chp. 10 (278-98): “The Ideal of Value”
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» key topics: Wide Image / emblem, EmerAgency,
“native” state of mind (// wabi-sabi), default moods; encounter; paideia, sage;
Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals; “which one?” (283-4); ressentiment; sage & ascetic ideal;
“no telling without living” (288) — aphorism/thought & anecdote/life;
The Wall (“le mur“); disaster of duty; “whirling square” (geometry & art)
* Office (296-8): ideal / value; paradox; attunement.
W 07-Apr Coverly, Accounts of the Glass Sky (2001) & Morrissey, The Jew’s Daughter (2000)
R 08-Apr No Class (away at conference)
Anecdote Images
Ulmer:
The March of Humanity (painting)
The Whirling Square (geometric design)
Mataturista (Triumph TR3)
ghink:
emblem pattern (WP avatar)
Milan Kundera:
“Much more than the card he slipped her at the last minute, it was the call of all those fortuities (the book, Beethoven, the number six, the yellow park bench) which gave her the courage to leave home and change her fate. It may well be those few fortuities (quite modest, by the way, even drab, just what one would expect from so lackluster a town) which set her love in motion and provided her with a source of energy she had not yet exhausted at the end of her days.
Our day-to-day life is bombarded with fortuities or, to be more precise, with the accidental meetings of people and events we call coincidences. ‘Co-incidence’ means that two events unexpectedly happen at the same time, they meet: Tomas appears in the hotel restaurant at the same time the radio is playing Beethoven. We do not even notice the great majority of such coincidences. If the seat Tomas occupied had been occupied instead by the local butcher, Tereza never would have noticed that the radio was playing Beethoven (though the meeting of Beethoven and the butcher would also have been an interesting coincidence). But her nascent love inflamed her sense of beauty, and she would never forget that music. Whenever she heard it, she would be touched. Everything going on around her at that moment would be haloed by the music and take on its beauty.”
— The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984, p. 51)
Can you tell us how many words to deligate to each part and give us an idea or example to go off of.