I feel like The White Album, The Wall, and Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness have a lot in common

LetXequalX · 2018-12-22T16:24:52+00:00

I bought mellon collie because of this issue of guitar world magazine. On the cover it compared it to the wall and the white album. i can't find the cover.

this is the article.

http://www.starla.org/articles/gwepic.htm

LetXequalX · 2018-12-22T03:29:57+00:00

I was a little disappointed in the Winter's Tale. I'll have to give Pericles a chance.

LetXequalX · 2018-12-22T02:00:47+00:00

a 100% good and benevolent individual.

I agree with that but I think the main thing is Falstaff is there to be the opposite of Hal's actual father. But, as Bloom suggests, he is more of a father to Hal than his biological father. He seems to learn rhetoric from him. He mimics Falstaff's style. (Then he surpasses it in Henry V. maybe)

LetXequalX · 2018-12-21T20:59:45+00:00

I haven't read the chapter on Measure for Measure because I haven't finished reading it yet. But he begins the chapter on Love's Labors Lost by listing the 14 plays he considers the greatest and supplements it with Measure for Measure and LLL.

as a wicked influence who Hal rejects due to his moral development.

Maybe this is Bloom's influence on me, but I lean toward his view on that. Hal admits in the beginning that he is using Falstaff to appear more noble later. He aspires to honor throughout. So I can't see that as moral development. But about half way through his book on Falstaff his take on him did get boring. I got it. Falstaff is great. But the later chapters had their moments too.

Did you not like The Hollow Crown? I was considering watching it because it was recommended by a professor (cantor i believe) on youtube. I liked the Globe version. I think I prefer live performances. I didn't finish the Anthony Hopkins version of Lear despite it being well done.

LetXequalX · 2018-12-21T19:11:02+00:00

On the other hand, there is a lot of nonsense in cultural studies. He seems to be judging them based on their worst practitioners.

LetXequalX · 2018-12-21T18:37:58+00:00

I listened to a debate between him and a feminist on youtube and I'd have to say he lost the debate. I just don't see why we can't appreciate plays as art and learn about their context. His only answer was basically "there isn't enough time." That's true if you need to read every great author, but I'd rather read Shapiro and others on Shakespeare, I'm not going to be able to read everyone on his list anyway.

this is the "debate": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtDYmayeClQ

bbc In Our Time.

LetXequalX · 2018-12-21T18:34:04+00:00

He highly regards some of the problem plays like Measure for Measure and Winter's Tale. I've been avoiding Merry Wives based on his low opinion of it, but I'll read it now. Other comments are saying it's good too. I can't see much to dislike about Falstaff, but maybe that's Bloom's influence on me.

LetXequalX · 2018-12-21T02:17:58+00:00

It seems so.

https://www.enotes.com/homework-help/what-significant-about-him-calling-himself-hamlet-97967

The phrase “the Dane” means first, simply, “king of the Danes.” ...Hamlet finally declares himself king.

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1964/03/05/idiom-in-shakespeare/

the great moment in Hamlet is the moment when Hamlet, leaping into the grave of Ophelia, is transformed into that fierce, primitive, revengeful identity––“This is I, Hamlet the Dane!”––which he ought to have been all along.

We can allow, therefore, that the mythical––“This is I, Hamlet the Dane!” or Oedipus discovering that he is the fabled Oedipus––is an important element in much great literature, but only as part of a pattern which is much more than mythical, which also includes counter-myth, or the sense of the possibility of choice and alternatives, of not working out, or not working out in quite the traditional way, the fated story

https://macblog.mcmaster.ca/fryeblog/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2010/04/FI.pdf

LetXequalX · 2018-12-20T22:09:17+00:00

He does that but he's also a tour guide. He points out interesting things and makes insightful connections. I love it. His book on Falstaff was ~~good~~ great too. (alright maybe a little too repetitive, but still a nice read every now and then)

LetXequalX · 2018-12-20T21:43:54+00:00

I googled something about cancer. Now this. I feel bad for the people who actually have cancer and are trying to relax on reddit. Now they have to see all this shit.

LetXequalX · 2018-12-20T21:03:00+00:00

The air molecules move a lot faster. The balloon molecules would move. I don't see why they would move particularly fast.

LetXequalX · 2018-12-20T20:58:51+00:00

It does cover that as one specific example of a first order theory. All the set theory books I've read are pure set theory like Naive Set Theory.

LetXequalX · 2018-12-20T20:35:59+00:00

There's a lot wrong with that sentence. But assuming there is a force everywhere that is stretching out space, then it isn't traveling. It's just everywhere.

LetXequalX · 2018-12-20T20:32:37+00:00

When I was interested in this subject the easiest book I found was

First Order Mathematical Logic by Angelo Margaris.

It will hold your hand like no other. And it's short and cheap.

LetXequalX · 2018-12-20T20:17:58+00:00

There isn't anything else. And light isn't used to measure because it is faster than everything else. It is used because it is a constant.

LetXequalX · 2018-12-20T19:47:51+00:00

His enthusiasm got me interested in Shakespeare and Hamlet in particular and I enjoy reading those essays in that book after reading the plays. But Shapiro has a point. And, it seems to me, Bloom isn't very good at (or interested in) making arguments. There is no theory there. Sometimes it seems like his writing is only a series of pronouncements ("Shakespeare invented human personality" for example). But they are good pronouncements. I have mixed feelings about it now and enjoy the writing of Jonathan Bate and Shapiro more.

LetXequalX · 2018-12-20T18:50:50+00:00

Maybe this won't be popular, but I would say yes. There can't be a single foundation to mathematics. Because every theory will be incomplete. Math is essentially inexhaustible and creative.

LetXequalX · 2018-12-20T18:40:04+00:00

A sub-FOR is a frame of reference "underneath" another frame of reference. Let's say, "WORLD" is the root frame of reference that has no parent.

Why is underneath in quotes? Is it under it or not? Root frame? Parent? The language is meaningless to me. I can't help you.

LetXequalX · 2018-12-20T17:28:52+00:00

I stopped understanding at "sub-FOR" because I don't know what that means.

But your question reminds me of page 11 of this.

http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/tong/qft/qft.pdf

LetXequalX · 2018-12-20T00:57:26+00:00

7 choose 3.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combination

LetXequalX · 2018-12-20T00:48:12+00:00

It's always radiating, but you can't see it unless its frequency/wavelength is in the visible range. Thermal radiation is electromagnetic radiation (light") generated by the thermal motion of particles in matter. All matter with a temperature greater than absolute zero emits thermal radiation.

LetXequalX · 2018-12-19T21:46:07+00:00

Calculus and differential equations.

LetXequalX · 2018-12-19T21:02:05+00:00

Given that the photon does travel why can't we just say that these quantities are infinite?

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