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Week 11(?) – 4/15 Brothers Karamazov  The beginning of Frank Chapter 6, page 67  The Brothers Karamazov – Book 7 Chapter 1: The Odor of Corruption  “Well into daylight people began arriving from town, some even bringing their sick, children especially—just as if they had been waiting purposely for this moment, apparently in hopes of…

“Above all, do not lie to yourself. A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth either in himself or anywhere around him, and thus falls into disrespect towards himself and others. Not respecting anyone, he ceases to love, and having…

This quote was taken from section 1.1 of Dugin, however, summarizes the first part of section II where he opens the discussion with German as an example of the complex philosophy of language and the intentions within the translations and expressed meaning of Heidegger’s work.  The nuanced and detailed approach supported by this linguistic suggestion…

The Spenserian stanza contains nine lines total, the first eight are in iambic pentameter, and the final line is iambic hexameter. The rhyme scheme follows a pattern of ABABBCBCC. Iambic pentameter is a pattern of stress where an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable, which can be expressed or read as: da DUM.…

Canto 7  “Vntill Duessa loud to him gan crye; O great Orgoglio, greatest vnder skye, O hold thy mortall hand for Ladies sake, Hold for my sake, and do him not to dye, But vanquisht thine eternall bondslaue make, And me thy worthy meed vnto thy Leman take. 15 He hearkned, and did stay from…

Author’s note: I found The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia to be very difficult to read and understand. I gained very little from the text itself. I gathered most of my understanding from summaries, translations, and course information. My blog post is more on the research I did to understand the text than the text itself. …

Screenshots from the story of Pywll Prince of Dryfed. Page 6-7 of the Jones and Jones translation: Screenshot of page 39 the Philokalia Towards the beginning of his story, Pywll Prince of Dryfed becomes very good friends with Arawn King of Annwn, the Otherworld, through a year-long time spent fulfilling the other person’s social roles,…

Authors note: This introductory assignment was completed prior to knowledge of structural / grammatical instruction for weekly blog posts, and it does contain the first person among other issues.             I found St. Anthony’s experiences to be contradictory. What is the goal of entering nature, is it an aid in…