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footnote to transient headlines
Sep. 6th, 2006 02:46 pmI see that Rupert Sheldrake’s misleadingly small sample to document “telephone telepathy” has made it as the lead news item on Yahoo (though quickly succeeded by pictures of celebrity baby Suri Cruise). I would rather not insert myself into a topic certain to be beaten to death in a thousand or more other blogs, but the indefatigable Robert Cheatham has come up with a superior source text from which those interested in the issue might wish to start:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,172-2344804,00.html
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also here is an unrelated post largely of bibliographic interest:
From a New York Times book review by William Grimes, September 6, 2006:
“’There are so many of us,’ Ms. Marokvia once tells her husband, who corrects her sharply. ‘No, there are not,’ he responds. ‘We just attract each other and lose perspective.’ True.”
It is true in far more spheres of activity than the book under review covers. It is true even if one finds websites that demonstrate more overlapping interests (both in terms of shared skepticism and shared delusions) than one had thought possible.
Looking for something else, I discovered this notification of a 2004 seminar…2004, I emphasize again, since in 2006 Erik Davis has been discoursing on Wallace Stevens from a site at Burning Man. One doesn’t expect to find Stevens in such a place, but neither does one expect the “is there an echo in here” between Davis’ 2004 texts and the ones I’ve been mentioning indiscriminately. Part of it is a logical side effect of investigating the background of the same source materials, but I am surprised at one or two less than obvious overlaps in our past reading. Note, by the way, that Frederick Turner’s famous father makes it onto the syllabus.
( ”Davis )
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,172-2344804,00.html
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also here is an unrelated post largely of bibliographic interest:
From a New York Times book review by William Grimes, September 6, 2006:
“’There are so many of us,’ Ms. Marokvia once tells her husband, who corrects her sharply. ‘No, there are not,’ he responds. ‘We just attract each other and lose perspective.’ True.”
It is true in far more spheres of activity than the book under review covers. It is true even if one finds websites that demonstrate more overlapping interests (both in terms of shared skepticism and shared delusions) than one had thought possible.
Looking for something else, I discovered this notification of a 2004 seminar…2004, I emphasize again, since in 2006 Erik Davis has been discoursing on Wallace Stevens from a site at Burning Man. One doesn’t expect to find Stevens in such a place, but neither does one expect the “is there an echo in here” between Davis’ 2004 texts and the ones I’ve been mentioning indiscriminately. Part of it is a logical side effect of investigating the background of the same source materials, but I am surprised at one or two less than obvious overlaps in our past reading. Note, by the way, that Frederick Turner’s famous father makes it onto the syllabus.
( ”Davis )
