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Self indulgence week closes with a drum roll. This excellent solo from Baby Dodds in 1946.
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Lewis is on the right. He pronounces almost every vowel as a diphthong, something that is heard only among very old English aristocrats, these days.
I’m sure Lewis would be turning in his grave if he knew that he was a hero of the contemporary Christian right.
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Nietsche is dead, God is not. Sadly.
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On the one hand I hesitate to post The Waste Land since it is clearly self indulgent nonsense. However:
1. This is/was self indulgence week.
2. It’s really good self indulgent nonsense.
3. Eliot himself inoculated the poem by saying it was nonsense.
I do feel uncomfortable with the bits that sound pretty anti-semitic to me. Perhaps someone could elucidate?
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A home movie from 1947. What a place Princeton was, after the war.
@ 33 seconds: Einstein
1:06 Godel on left
1:25 Selberg at the right, his wife Heddy in the middle
1:41 Paul Erdos (left) and Hermann Weyl (right)
3:01 Paul Dirac at right, and his student Harish-Chandra at left
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