Mode for Caleb: Carnivalesque

Wednesday, March 02, 2005

Carnivalesque

Where else but in the blogosphere do I get to masquerade as an early modernist? Someone (thanks, whoever you are) apparently nominated a post from Mode for Caleb for the Carnivalesque on early modern history, which allowed me to discover what looks like a great carnival! How had I missed this before?

Improvised @ 8:41 AM

Collective Improvisation:

Liner notes

Common-Place

Favorite tracks

Selected blogography

Vinyl

"I wish to be a spokesman of the doubt that the great difficulties of our time can be solved by violence." Wendell Berry

"I enjoy the quietude of soliloquizing and communing with the spirit of history. This spirit is ... brotherly, akin to us in another and deeper sense than are the denizens of bush and field. These exertions are like Jacob's wrestling -- a sure gain for the wrestler himself. Indeed this is what matters first of all." Count Yorck von Wartenburg

"Defenceless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame."
W. H. Auden
From "September 1, 1939"

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