Grief lessons: four plays by Euripides - Google Books Result
trans. Anne Carson. NYRB 2006
..They are old men. They lean on sticks or on each other. All mortals come to this.
Gods remain a problem. You will hear gods' names and see their consequences rawly displayed throughout the speeches and the action. You will sympathize with the chorus who cower before them and also with Herakles who decides not to believe in them -- not to believe, that is, in the story of his own life. Bold move. ..
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
There are certain objects (people, animals, cars, boats, etc.) in which right & left refer to the right & left sides from the objects’ perspective.
However, there are other objects (pieces of paper, buildings, etc.) in which you use your right & left side to reference it.
I assume this has to do with whether we can mentally substitute ourselves in place of the object—we can do that with other living things or with vehicles in which we can ride, but not inanimate objects like a piece of paper.
hmm. int re cars. the vehicle moves ( = animate? ~ de anima ~ does not have its source of motion in itself ~ well except it does actually, it's not being moved, it is moving. so how is that distinct fr? an engine not an anima)
anything in motion,indep of us moving it, wld we say it has a right & left side of its own (from its own perspective)? because it moving gives it a forward direction, and thus a right & left? forward more powerful (as a notion in mind) than simply having a front?
divisbyzero.com/2010/02/04/why-do-mirrors-reverse-right-and-left-but-not-up-and-down-2
Posted by: Dave Richeson | February 4, 2010
Dave Richeson , Associate Professor of Mathematics, Dickinson College
MY BOOK | Euler's Gem: The polyhedron formula and the birth of topology. Princeton University Press 2008
I'm reposting something I wrote last year at this time. I was then, and am now, teaching Calculus III, and we just finished discussing the cross product. I ended the conversation by telling my classes how the cross product helps us answer the question: why do mirrors reverse right and left but not up and down?
Before we answer that question, we have to ask a more basic one: what is “the right”?
“Right” and “left” are a slippery concepts that are hard to define. In fact, you need to know other things about an object before you can determine its right and left. For example, if I handed you a blob-like sea creature and asked you which side is its right side, you may not be able to answer me. If I told you where the top and front sides of the critter were, then you could quickly identify the right side.
yes if there's a top & a front then there's a right & left side. { but...}
which is just wh said to R, defending my rxn when he said the bks "on that book's right". I said if we can speak of it having a front (& top I see now that we'd have to have a (shared) sense of wh is top ~ rb asked th, standing his pen up, if has top & bttm, wld I say it has a right side? ~ laughing at. & I said y since pen had one of those metal ..~clips? wh are those?! I guess fr design of pen to be hooked over shirt pocket so y 'clip'. since it has that, marking a front, then y it has r & l) than we can speak of it having a right.
R thought this preposterous. and alarming sheesh. bcs of the { but...} see below.
it's not preposterous though. ok, convention says that we refer to right & left sides of inanimate objects with reference to our right & left when facing those. but given the phrasing "*its* right", the book's right*, it's not preposterous that I would think he might be specifying a sort of book-right, like stage-right. see int Merriam Webster below. d1. but used wrt any object other than a stage? which is a special object since people stand on it & the norm is that they face other people 'in the house' 'house right'.
*realized myself an argument I'd accept, against taking that phrase that way. wh is that "to the book's right" and "to the right of the book" are syntactically the same, mean the same, just two ways of wording the possessive. genitive. and the latter, being more common in this situation, I recognize as conventionally indicating MY right when I look at the book.
The three directions, top, front, and right are mutually perpendicular and if you know two of them, you know the third. For a person, a car, an animal, etc, the top and the front are unambiguous and intuitive. Then we use them to determine which side is the right side. and note that right side of the car is ITS right side, truly. (wh makes sense I suppose bcs you relate to it by sitting in it, ie facing the same way as it. not just by facing it, ie facing the opposite way as it.)
Here’s a mathematical explanation of what you would be doing mentally. Take the coordinate axes shown below, point the z-axis out of the top of the creature and the y-axis out its front, then the x-axis will point to its right.
{...but }
good comment, in response to complaint that mirrors are 2d & thrf no front or back
-A mirror may practically be 2d dimensional, but it reflects light that encodes three dimensional information.
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thefreedictionary.com/left
a. Of, belonging to, located on, or being the side of the body to the north when the subject is facing east. int. not as intuitive as..
right = the side to the south when a person or object faces east] so why 'southpaw' = left. that comes from someone who faces west? :) y! [From the practice in baseball of arranging the diamond with the batter facing east to avoid the afternoon sun. A left-handed pitcher facing west would therefore have his pitching arm toward the south of the diamond.]
oh and p.s. "or object" 'when a person OR OBJECT faces east got a face got a right & left
..as
designating the side of something or someone that faces west when the front is turned towards the north
seems more common to talk in terms of facing north. and thrf to correlate: left = west.
and p.s. "SOMETHING or someone."
merriam-webster.com/dictionary/left
b : done with the left hand
c : located nearer to the left hand than to the right
d : (1) : located on the left of an observer facing in the same direction as the object specified ['stage right']
(2) : located on the left when facing downstream ['the left bank'] ah ok d n exactly know th. wonder why that conventn? facing downstream. so if walking upstream against current, the bank on your right is 'the left bank'?
La Rive Gauche (French pronunciation: [la ʁiv ɡoʃ], The Left Bank) is the southern bank of the river Seine in Paris. Here the river flows roughly westwards, cutting the city in two: looking downstream which looking west, the southern bank is to the left, and the northern bank (or Rive Droite) is to the right. ok so that is the model. and I guess I knew term wrt Paris but not extended generally ~ wrt other rivers ~ is it?
"Rive Gauche" or "Left Bank" generally refers to the Paris of an earlier era; the Paris of artists, writers and philosophers, including Pablo Picasso, Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine, Henri Matisse, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and dozens of other members of the great artistic community at Montparnasse. The phrase implies a sense of bohemianism and creativity. Some of its famous streets are the Boulevard Saint-Germain, the Boulevard Saint-Michel, the Rue de Rennes.
Rive Droite can now be used to refer to a level of elegance and sophistication not found in the more bohemian Left Bank. The Right Bank's most famous street is the Champs-Élysées, but there are others of prominence, such as Rue de la Paix, Rue de Rivoli, Avenue Montaigne.
merriam-webster.com/dictionary/right
Lat. 'regere' to lead straight, direct, rule. Greek. 'oregein' to reach out for, to stretch out.
7 a : of, relating to, situated on, or being the side of the body which is away from the side on which the heart is mostly located
huh to its being #7. after ~ rightous, upright; in accordance with what is just, good, or proper; correct, conforming to facts or truth; appropriate; straight geradeaus; genuine, real.
but before 8 : having the axis perpendicular to the base. & etc.
geradewegs = directly
However, there are other objects (pieces of paper, buildings, etc.) in which you use your right & left side to reference it.
I assume this has to do with whether we can mentally substitute ourselves in place of the object—we can do that with other living things or with vehicles in which we can ride, but not inanimate objects like a piece of paper.
hmm. int re cars. the vehicle moves ( = animate? ~ de anima ~ does not have its source of motion in itself ~ well except it does actually, it's not being moved, it is moving. so how is that distinct fr? an engine not an anima)
anything in motion,indep of us moving it, wld we say it has a right & left side of its own (from its own perspective)? because it moving gives it a forward direction, and thus a right & left? forward more powerful (as a notion in mind) than simply having a front?
divisbyzero.com/2010/02/04/why-do-mirrors-reverse-right-and-left-but-not-up-and-down-2
Posted by: Dave Richeson | February 4, 2010
Dave Richeson , Associate Professor of Mathematics, Dickinson College
MY BOOK | Euler's Gem: The polyhedron formula and the birth of topology. Princeton University Press 2008
I'm reposting something I wrote last year at this time. I was then, and am now, teaching Calculus III, and we just finished discussing the cross product. I ended the conversation by telling my classes how the cross product helps us answer the question: why do mirrors reverse right and left but not up and down?
Before we answer that question, we have to ask a more basic one: what is “the right”?
“Right” and “left” are a slippery concepts that are hard to define. In fact, you need to know other things about an object before you can determine its right and left. For example, if I handed you a blob-like sea creature and asked you which side is its right side, you may not be able to answer me. If I told you where the top and front sides of the critter were, then you could quickly identify the right side.
yes if there's a top & a front then there's a right & left side. { but...}
which is just wh said to R, defending my rxn when he said the bks "on that book's right". I said if we can speak of it having a front (& top I see now that we'd have to have a (shared) sense of wh is top ~ rb asked th, standing his pen up, if has top & bttm, wld I say it has a right side? ~ laughing at. & I said y since pen had one of those metal ..~clips? wh are those?! I guess fr design of pen to be hooked over shirt pocket so y 'clip'. since it has that, marking a front, then y it has r & l) than we can speak of it having a right.
R thought this preposterous. and alarming sheesh. bcs of the { but...} see below.
it's not preposterous though. ok, convention says that we refer to right & left sides of inanimate objects with reference to our right & left when facing those. but given the phrasing "*its* right", the book's right*, it's not preposterous that I would think he might be specifying a sort of book-right, like stage-right. see int Merriam Webster below. d1. but used wrt any object other than a stage? which is a special object since people stand on it & the norm is that they face other people 'in the house' 'house right'.
*realized myself an argument I'd accept, against taking that phrase that way. wh is that "to the book's right" and "to the right of the book" are syntactically the same, mean the same, just two ways of wording the possessive. genitive. and the latter, being more common in this situation, I recognize as conventionally indicating MY right when I look at the book.
The three directions, top, front, and right are mutually perpendicular and if you know two of them, you know the third. For a person, a car, an animal, etc, the top and the front are unambiguous and intuitive. Then we use them to determine which side is the right side. and note that right side of the car is ITS right side, truly. (wh makes sense I suppose bcs you relate to it by sitting in it, ie facing the same way as it. not just by facing it, ie facing the opposite way as it.)
Here’s a mathematical explanation of what you would be doing mentally. Take the coordinate axes shown below, point the z-axis out of the top of the creature and the y-axis out its front, then the x-axis will point to its right.
{...but }
I’ll end this post with some assorted thoughts about the left and the right.
- One thing that occurred to me while writing this post is that we treat different objects differently. Suppose I was holding a piece of paper out in front of me with my two hands and you were facing me. If I told you to point to the right hand side of the paper, then to point to my right hand, you would point to two opposite sides of the paper! There are certain objects (people, animals, cars, boats, etc.) in which right and left refer to the right and left sides from the objects’ perspective. However, there are other objects (pieces of paper, buildings, etc.) in which you use your right and left side to reference it. I assume this has to do with whether we can mentally substitute ourselves in place of the object—we can do that with other living things or with vehicles in which we can ride, but not inanimate objects like a piece of paper.
good comment, in response to complaint that mirrors are 2d & thrf no front or back
-A mirror may practically be 2d dimensional, but it reflects light that encodes three dimensional information.
____________________________________________________________________________________________
thefreedictionary.com/left
a. Of, belonging to, located on, or being the side of the body to the north when the subject is facing east. int. not as intuitive as..
b. Of, relating to, directed toward, or located on the left side.
c. Located on the left side of a person facing downstreamright = the side to the south when a person or object faces east] so why 'southpaw' = left. that comes from someone who faces west? :) y! [From the practice in baseball of arranging the diamond with the batter facing east to avoid the afternoon sun. A left-handed pitcher facing west would therefore have his pitching arm toward the south of the diamond.]
oh and p.s. "or object" 'when a person OR OBJECT faces east got a face got a right & left
..as
designating the side of something or someone that faces west when the front is turned towards the north
seems more common to talk in terms of facing north. and thrf to correlate: left = west.
and p.s. "SOMETHING or someone."
merriam-webster.com/dictionary/left
Main Entry: 1left
Function: adjective
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English, weak; akin to Middle Low German lucht left; from the left hand's being the weaker in most individuals
1 a : of, relating to, situated on, or being the side of the body in which the heart is mostly located. ok. that keeps it personal.b : done with the left hand
c : located nearer to the left hand than to the right
d : (1) : located on the left of an observer facing in the same direction as the object specified ['stage right']
(2) : located on the left when facing downstream ['the left bank'] ah ok d n exactly know th. wonder why that conventn? facing downstream. so if walking upstream against current, the bank on your right is 'the left bank'?
La Rive Gauche (French pronunciation: [la ʁiv ɡoʃ], The Left Bank) is the southern bank of the river Seine in Paris. Here the river flows roughly westwards, cutting the city in two: looking downstream which looking west, the southern bank is to the left, and the northern bank (or Rive Droite) is to the right. ok so that is the model. and I guess I knew term wrt Paris but not extended generally ~ wrt other rivers ~ is it?
"Rive Gauche" or "Left Bank" generally refers to the Paris of an earlier era; the Paris of artists, writers and philosophers, including Pablo Picasso, Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine, Henri Matisse, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and dozens of other members of the great artistic community at Montparnasse. The phrase implies a sense of bohemianism and creativity. Some of its famous streets are the Boulevard Saint-Germain, the Boulevard Saint-Michel, the Rue de Rennes.
Rive Droite can now be used to refer to a level of elegance and sophistication not found in the more bohemian Left Bank. The Right Bank's most famous street is the Champs-Élysées, but there are others of prominence, such as Rue de la Paix, Rue de Rivoli, Avenue Montaigne.
merriam-webster.com/dictionary/right
Lat. 'regere' to lead straight, direct, rule. Greek. 'oregein' to reach out for, to stretch out.
7 a : of, relating to, situated on, or being the side of the body which is away from the side on which the heart is mostly located
huh to its being #7. after ~ rightous, upright; in accordance with what is just, good, or proper; correct, conforming to facts or truth; appropriate; straight geradeaus; genuine, real.
but before 8 : having the axis perpendicular to the base. & etc.
geradewegs = directly
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Episode 17 of the Final Season of LOST « The Final Season of LOST as Seen by Someone Who Has Never Seen LOST
Overall What is Happening
Jack’s dead.
More Detailed Episode Recap
Get excited, the woosh woosh woosh transition is back! But selectively.
Nice, slow pretty montage showing the characters double lives. Jack’s dad’s coffin arrives in LA. Which is an incredible coincidence that Desmond pranked him to say it was arriving and it actually was and the airline didn’t call Jack to inform him. Jack is looking at a head X-ray, trying to figure out what’s wrong with this guy’s knee. Locke is being wheeled on a gurney about to have surgery on his spine by someone who probably shouldn’t even be allowed to give a tetanus shot. Sawyer walks by a mirror he punched earlier and says “there’s more where that came from, mirror.”
Over at a building...
woosh woosh woosh
Miles and Ricardo are riding in a canoe, heading to the other little island. While rowing, they see Salty Pilot clinging to a flotation device. I guess he’s survived out here for days. To be clear DAYS. Make an effort to get to shore, Lazy Pilot. He points out that he’s a pilot and can fly them off the island. How could anyone forget, he’s wearing his uniform all the time.
While walking through the jungle, the good guys and bad guys run into each other. Sad Day Monster finds out that Jack took over Jacob’s job on the island. “You’re the obvious choice.” “He didn’t choose me, I volunteered.” While technically correct, I believe Jacob was laying game on you pretty hard. He might have even said that he was happy you volunteered, so let’s not get too cavalier about this, Jack.
The talk in the Team Protagonist circle is that Dez has special talents and can be used a weapon.
Three minutes later they come across the light in the tunnel. Ya know, the light that Sad Day Monster has spent a century trying to find in a finite area but has had no luck until right now? Desmond is going in. He tells Jack it will send them to be with the people they love and not worry about the island. Can I go?
woosh woosh woosh
Sayid goes to help up Blonde Girl. They start having The Flashbacks.
...
Kate comes up and touches Jack. Based on his face, Jack has some issues. Why is Jack the only one who doesn’t just roll with these flashbacks?
...
Jack’s dad is there. Jack says “what are you doing here?” His dad says “What are YOU doing here?” Good comeback. This is all Jack needs to realize he’s dead.
Miles and Ricardo are nowhere in sight. My guess is that they had much cooler times than the time they spent on the island. They’re at some church across town with cool people.
Thoughts I Have
Overall What is Happening
Jack’s dead.
More Detailed Episode Recap
Get excited, the woosh woosh woosh transition is back! But selectively.
Nice, slow pretty montage showing the characters double lives. Jack’s dad’s coffin arrives in LA. Which is an incredible coincidence that Desmond pranked him to say it was arriving and it actually was and the airline didn’t call Jack to inform him. Jack is looking at a head X-ray, trying to figure out what’s wrong with this guy’s knee. Locke is being wheeled on a gurney about to have surgery on his spine by someone who probably shouldn’t even be allowed to give a tetanus shot. Sawyer walks by a mirror he punched earlier and says “there’s more where that came from, mirror.”
Over at a building...
woosh woosh woosh
Miles and Ricardo are riding in a canoe, heading to the other little island. While rowing, they see Salty Pilot clinging to a flotation device. I guess he’s survived out here for days. To be clear DAYS. Make an effort to get to shore, Lazy Pilot. He points out that he’s a pilot and can fly them off the island. How could anyone forget, he’s wearing his uniform all the time.
While walking through the jungle, the good guys and bad guys run into each other. Sad Day Monster finds out that Jack took over Jacob’s job on the island. “You’re the obvious choice.” “He didn’t choose me, I volunteered.” While technically correct, I believe Jacob was laying game on you pretty hard. He might have even said that he was happy you volunteered, so let’s not get too cavalier about this, Jack.
The talk in the Team Protagonist circle is that Dez has special talents and can be used a weapon.
Three minutes later they come across the light in the tunnel. Ya know, the light that Sad Day Monster has spent a century trying to find in a finite area but has had no luck until right now? Desmond is going in. He tells Jack it will send them to be with the people they love and not worry about the island. Can I go?
woosh woosh woosh
Sayid goes to help up Blonde Girl. They start having The Flashbacks.
...
Kate comes up and touches Jack. Based on his face, Jack has some issues. Why is Jack the only one who doesn’t just roll with these flashbacks?
...
Jack’s dad is there. Jack says “what are you doing here?” His dad says “What are YOU doing here?” Good comeback. This is all Jack needs to realize he’s dead.
Miles and Ricardo are nowhere in sight. My guess is that they had much cooler times than the time they spent on the island. They’re at some church across town with cool people.
Thoughts I Have
- How does this work? People don’t die until they move on? I’m unclear on how Mrs. Whitmore knows what’s going on and wants to prevent it.
- I stand by my 5/15 Theory that you can watch the first five & last fifteen minutes of each episodes and know everything you need from the episode. Expanding out for the extended episode, you would have watched the first 13 minutes & last 37. Theory works again.
- My above theory was also confirmed for me by Radio Askew with whom I did a podcast over the weekend (www.radioaskew.com). Someone put my theory to the test and got all caught up before the finale. Science wins again.
- My assumption is no one ever threatened the island again and they just went on about their business for eternity.
- For the record, I was able to follow this season fine. I enjoyed the finale.
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