Christopher Forman

#ModPoLive Thanks, Al! Great webcast.

#ModPoLive This poem brings to mind e e cummings’s “i thank You God for this most amazing / day.” Do we know which came first? Did one influence the other?

We don’t seem to talk much about the syllabic nature of many of Corman’s poems. #ModPoLive

@ModPoPenn Interesting poetry from the late 19th century (though from England and not published until later): Gerard Manley Hopkins. #ModPoLive

JL Austin distinguished "locution", the act of speaking, from "illocution": the thing done in the world by that act.The Economist #ModPoLive

@ModPoPenn "The accounts we give of things [should] have the same character as the subjects they set forth." Plato, Timaeus (29b3-5)

Bob Dylan? #ModPoLive

@oliverburkeman Just watched "A Face in the Crowd." Not sure I need to watch the Presidential Debate tonight.

"And I have known the eyes already, known them all-- / The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase" T. S. Eliot #ModPoLive

Is Stein interesting and important primarily because of her influence on others? #ModPoLive

Do the first two lines suggest Eliot? #modpolive

"As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect." Emerson, "Self-Reliance"

@bbctms Why does the Internet feed work on wifi and not on 3G?

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the dayEBWhite

From The Way of Chuang Tzu by Thomas Merton:

@nick_maniatis Yes, please!

The New Yorker's Anthony Lane on the Oscars: newyorker.com/culture/cultur…

@nprscottsimon @AppIeOfflciaI Not Martin Scorsese?

Just saw Interstellar at ArcLight Hollywood in the Dome. Spectacular! Reminds me why we're in this business.

Teach us to care and not to care teach us to sit still.