Third Leg of the Human Table

And not only ceaseless music making, but ceaseless music making as communion with & imitation of harmonious heavenly divine bodies.

The best way to live in communion with & praise God is through ceaseless music making - how far back does this idea go?

@untimelysalts Tamara Davis

Movie pitch: Michael Kohlhaas, Wilhelm Tell and Dr. Faustus go on a roadtrip, raising hell throughout the Holy Roman Empire, having adventures, breaking hearts, starting rebellions, hanging out at witch dance parties. Who would you like to see direct

@jmrphy “Truly boring and lame” is top notch rage rhetoric. Congrats on being able to pull in quasi viral engagement levels so consistently.

I’m truly not a jerk but only my jerk tweets go viral. That is not my fault. I’m naturally nice and very constructive but the algorithm never pushes those tweets! Notice you never hear from me except like once every 4 months?

@noon_ta_noeta @miltonappl3 This makes sense but I doubt many audiobook listeners are using them a secondary aids to more fully comprehend what they've already grappled with in the text.

imo you should do both for the same text. experience in language learning shows this, you will gain better intuition for the structure and flow of a text if you also listened to it. both have different functions. given that these texts are themselves basically a different language, you only truly become fluent in them if you attack them on all fronts (that also includes writing them out and immitating their style). what matters is immersion. despite it being my native language, listening to Hegel on walks really opened up reading him. besides, listening is free extra input time. this also helps to approach actual reading more carefully, to treat it as study time that doesnt have any urgency.

It's a meme that silent reading was a modern thing. People read aloud because books were more expensive than laptops and everyone was illiterate. Reading aloud lowers text complexity for people who haven't read enough to move the process of reading from their broca center to the optical cortex. The most information dense stuff came from hyper literate periods. If you can successfully listen to an audiobook, you're listening to low info density books. No one can listen to Hegel on libravox. Homer and Shakespeare were converted to text based documents. Good luck catching twenty references to the number two in the opening 14 line sonnet in Romeo and Juliet when driving to work. In the upcoming years the rhetoric around audio being ok will amplify and improve as the world backslides and comes up with a rationale ex post facto. They will pay the audio apologists handsomely.

@miltonappl3 Never understood how 1 can listen to an info dense audiobook, esp if there's dense symbolism or logic to work through. How are you not gonna miss half the book on account of working out yr own thoughts about what you've just heard? Are U meant to pause it every 30 seconds?

@Pattycakkkes777 @miltonappl3 I live in a society like all civilized beings. I am not a hermit, barbarian or animal.

@noinfonoinfo @miltonappl3 Sounds like you've been cucked by your perception of the way you are perceived by others.

IQ being associated with faster walking is not the flex people thing l think it is. It means you've back slid into the merchant class, spiritually an hourly worker, no longer an idle salaried man

Agreed. Also Gatsby sucks, too. Obviously virtue signaling sticking not one but TWO mediocre Americans on the list.

Thinking of becoming a popular psychic & hosting a call in program live on Utube or something mostly so I can have a reason to wear outrageously sick outfits & ramble on about how Poseidon the horse god became lord of the sea & discuss the intricacies of Kepler's Harmonice Mundi

@mark1854now You sound poor and jealous

Peter is lucky, he's affluent, he can afford to use taxis and the train when he needs to. Peter lived in Hampstead, now Oxford, a pedestrian friendly city, easy to exist without a car. Peter describes himself as middle-class and has lived a privileged life. Most people need a car

@PhrygianWeaver Penguin classics are sht quality anyway and turn yellow in like 2 years time, better to spend like 4 dollars more and get an Everyman Library edition.

According to my research, the Penguin Classics cover design was changed in 2001 in order to demoralize and humiliate you.

@responsiblerob Main difference here is looks like he’s taking to a hot girl already and he’s rich.

how it feels to be in the last year of my 20s getting a beer by myself on a saturday night at a crowded bar in LA full of 22 year olds

Americans have such a psycho relationship to age it’s so sad. When I was still drinking a lot at like 43 I was in bars full of 20/early 30 somethings multiple nights a week & not only didn’t I feel insecure I knew I was the coolest guy in the room.

@theeroamer It’s not a look Id wanna get into myself but these guys both look better and cooler than 99% of men I see on the streets of even America’s most fashionable cities. Like oh no, he’s not wearing a tight ass puffer jacket with bad sneakers, how weird of him!

@GDRvisuals A post office in central Leipzig today. How lucky they were to throw off the chains of communism and enter the free market

Leipzig Post Office, 1961.

@miltonappl3 Now that I this phone I can’t get away from knowing the precise minute of the workday. Having a smartphone is also cuck behavior, but they made it addictive enough that I can’t do away with it yet

@miltonappl3 Walking fast is something I had to train myself out of when I realized it was cuck behavior (also wearing a watch).

@zachenglish91 @miltonappl3 This is how I feel about Dorothy Sayers’ terza rima Divine Comedy. She makes it sound like Elizabethan drama married to Tennyson but I don’t mind. Takes all the clownishness of Italian rhyme out of it. Def wouldn’t recommend it as a first read of the poem though.

@miltonappl3 Some ppl say, though, re: this type of stuff: "Even if it's not that accurate, it's still interesting." Since Pope was a virtuoso w/ meter, rhyme and diction, I'd be interested to read this translation, even knowing 100% that it prob. bears little relation 2 the original

No one would abide by a translation of the Bible that shoehorned everything into metered couplets. Alexander Pope's translation of The Iliad should be launched into the sea.

What was wrong with this cover that they had someone with no sense of proportion or aesthetic sensitivity redo it?

Truly repulsive book cover on every level. Why is the title broken up and “Literacy” given its own level? What is this disgusting font? Why these font sizes?