Comments on: For the Love of Work, or,Tea with Melville http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/for-the-love-of-work-ortea-with-melville/ Raise a glass to the lost arts of reading, writing, and drinking. Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:35:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Dave http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/for-the-love-of-work-ortea-with-melville/comment-page-1/#comment-5003 Dave Thu, 10 Feb 2011 22:23:15 +0000 http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/?p=1391#comment-5003 The problem: It seems the world is always bullying us to be less absorbed.... The problem: It seems the world is always bullying us to be less absorbed….

]]> By: dave http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/for-the-love-of-work-ortea-with-melville/comment-page-1/#comment-5002 dave Thu, 10 Feb 2011 22:19:33 +0000 http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/?p=1391#comment-5002 Could you be more specific about the order? Could you be more specific about the order?

]]> By: Burns Ellison http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/for-the-love-of-work-ortea-with-melville/comment-page-1/#comment-5000 Burns Ellison Thu, 10 Feb 2011 22:07:20 +0000 http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/?p=1391#comment-5000 Dear David, I was much flattered, and more than a trifle touched, to see that you'd chosen to make mention of me in 'For the Love of Work, or, Tea with Melville.' I particularly felt that way given how much I liked the piece itself. Upon reading it, I found myself not only wanting to go back and read Donald Hall's book again but also to read more Melville--and more Gessner (not necessarily in that order) . Write on. Burns Ellison Dear David,

I was much flattered, and more than a trifle touched, to see that you’d chosen to make mention of me in ‘For the Love of Work, or, Tea with Melville.’ I particularly felt that way given how much I liked the piece itself. Upon reading it, I found myself not only wanting to go back and read Donald Hall’s book again but also to read more Melville–and more Gessner (not necessarily in that order) .

Write on.

Burns Ellison

]]> By: Cider Rides http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/for-the-love-of-work-ortea-with-melville/comment-page-1/#comment-4984 Cider Rides Wed, 09 Feb 2011 22:26:56 +0000 http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/?p=1391#comment-4984 "Absorbedness" is a place I find myself often. I was there last weekend. What, to those on the outside might perceive as W-O-R-K..., is to me a dedication to an an endeavor that will likely never be completed moment to moment; day to day. It can be a challenge to become un-absorbed. Thanks “Absorbedness” is a place I find myself often. I was there last weekend. What, to those on the outside might perceive as W-O-R-K…, is to me a dedication to an an endeavor that will likely never be completed moment to moment; day to day. It can be a challenge to become un-absorbed.
Thanks

]]> By: John Jack http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/for-the-love-of-work-ortea-with-melville/comment-page-1/#comment-4958 John Jack Tue, 08 Feb 2011 05:07:38 +0000 http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/?p=1391#comment-4958 I enjoyed E.M. Forster's <i>Aspects of the Novel</i> more than any similarly themed writing on writing text. It put me in a frame of mind to appreciate a shortcoming in my writing. I could show, imitate proxy realities all day, every word, all along fairly well, but I came across as telling what I insisted readers listen to. A preacher writer, not particularly a visionary observer, no mystic-prophet like magical transendence into a profound personal participation mystique. Forster magically invokes the metapsychic predetermination versus free will debate in that section of the work. He doesn't scratch at the underbelly of the idea, he embraces it without naming it, all the while not overtly favoring one side or the other. "There, also, is God-the Archon-the metapsychic organizing power: the formless shaper of form. " — In Other Worlds Connotation from W♥rdnik I enjoyed E.M. Forster’s Aspects of the Novel more than any similarly themed writing on writing text. It put me in a frame of mind to appreciate a shortcoming in my writing. I could show, imitate proxy realities all day, every word, all along fairly well, but I came across as telling what I insisted readers listen to.

A preacher writer, not particularly a visionary observer, no mystic-prophet like magical transendence into a profound personal participation mystique.

Forster magically invokes the metapsychic predetermination versus free will debate in that section of the work. He doesn’t scratch at the underbelly of the idea, he embraces it without naming it, all the while not overtly favoring one side or the other.

“There, also, is God-the Archon-the metapsychic organizing power: the formless shaper of form. ”
— In Other Worlds
Connotation from W♥rdnik

]]> By: Bill http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/for-the-love-of-work-ortea-with-melville/comment-page-1/#comment-4957 Bill Tue, 08 Feb 2011 04:44:00 +0000 http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/?p=1391#comment-4957 David, this looks like a really great class. I want to return to every book on your list, stuff I read years ago, see how they ring here in what I hope proves to be the middle of my career... David, this looks like a really great class. I want to return to every book on your list, stuff I read years ago, see how they ring here in what I hope proves to be the middle of my career…

]]> By: George de Gramont http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/for-the-love-of-work-ortea-with-melville/comment-page-1/#comment-4931 George de Gramont Sun, 06 Feb 2011 22:39:59 +0000 http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/?p=1391#comment-4931 Great Essay . Good to see a return to "Montaigne" Standard. Great Essay . Good to see a return to “Montaigne” Standard.

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