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Nekropolis.
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St. Jerome Bible tips:
1. Psalter, your recreation.
2. Proverbs, your way of life.
3. Ecclesiastes, how to trample the world.
4. Job, learn patient virtue.
5. Gospels, always in hand.
6. Acts+Epistles, be steeped in them.
7. Prophets, commit to memory.
8. Canticles, have no fear.
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Em 1886, o poeta e diplomata francês Paul Claudel, um jovem ateu, brilhante, racionalista, convencido de que a fé era coisa de gente atrasada, entrou por acaso na Catedral de Notre-Dame em Paris, no dia de Natal. Não ia rezar. Ia observar. No momento em que o coro cantou o Magnificat, ele foi subitamente atingido (a palavra é dele) por uma presença que não cabia em nenhuma de suas categorias. Não houve debate. Não houve prova. Houve um desabamento. Claudel saiu da catedral convertido, e passou o resto da vida tentando explicar, em prosa e verso, o que lhe aconteceu naqueles minutos: que a verdade não precisou de sua autorização para ser verdadeira.
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair:
time’s iron hand has left us bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.
These fragments I have shored against my ruins,
and among them, a bracelet of bright hair about the bone.
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These are excerpts from "McLuhan in Reverse: His General Theory of Media" (2021), by Robert K. Logan. Found in Andrey Mir's "Speaking of McLuhan in the era of AI" (2026)
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It's LIVE. Introducing Atlas of Ages. A browsable timeline of history over the face of the earth. I wanted to recreate my childhood experience of browsing through an interactive history timeline.
dozmarysoftworks.com/atlas-o…
On top of this you can scroll over a map of a given region and it contextualizes the timeline around that region. Relatively sparse entries right now, but please recommend any events and places you'd like to see!
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I would also like to address fathers and grandfathers. Young people need to see that you pray, receive the sacraments, treat your wives with respect, ask for forgiveness and live with integrity, even when doing so requires sacrifice. Children learn a great deal by seeing that their father can kneel before God without feeling that he is any less of a man for doing it.
McLuhan's letter to Paul Levinson
November 9, 1977
Themes: Linguistics, Semiology, + Derrida (on Husserl) in relation to medieval nominalism. "Their literature is vast, even as the scope of their thought is very narrow". Fred Jameson in relation to Foucalt, triads + tetrads.
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (1964), Marshall McLuhan: “Rapidly, we approach the final phase of the extensions of man—the technological simulation of consciousness.”
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Just found out about @Andrey4Mir's book on McLuhan and AI. Seems very promising!
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I am more likely to trust a difficult poet if they prove themselves also capable of elegantly developing a simple conceit. Robert Graves does—
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Critical editions of the future will detail the textual divergences between branches with names like ManuscriptFinalREVISED.docx and ManuscriptFinalFinalFIXED(1).pdf.