tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post5563108571793950943..comments2024-03-28T06:07:03.667-04:00Comments on The Philosopher's Stone: A NEW FANTASY GAMERobert Paul Wolffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-30089001805622544602010-08-20T00:46:13.444-04:002010-08-20T00:46:13.444-04:00I would try to help people catch disease/bad habit...I would try to help people catch disease/bad habits early. two examples that come immediately to mind are gareth evans and river phoenix, although for different reasons.andrEwhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03824635465637174743noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-14811526660240110652010-08-17T17:47:03.772-04:002010-08-17T17:47:03.772-04:00This reminds me of one of Kierkegaard's best p...This reminds me of one of Kierkegaard's best passages. At the beginning of the second part of Either/Or ("The Immediate Erotic Stages"), he says (in paraphrase) that while there's no sense in trying to rank the really great composers, nevertheless Mozart is the best of all.<br /><br />I use this line a lot when I get into arguments about the greatest philosophers ever. I'm more than willing to concede that there's no possible way to rank Plato, Aristotle, Hume, and Kant (and, in some of my moods, Spinoza). Still, Kant is the greatest philosopher ever.Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11411530873269401673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-26637980954613746252010-08-17T15:35:48.706-04:002010-08-17T15:35:48.706-04:00Great fantasy, except for Mozart's quartets I&...Great fantasy, except for Mozart's quartets I'd use the recordings of the spectacular Quatuor Mosaïques (as good as the Emersons are).<br /><br />:)Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05149297148185001748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-3935616344402106962010-08-17T15:16:34.009-04:002010-08-17T15:16:34.009-04:00That is marvelous! Thank you. Of course, for Bac...That is marvelous! Thank you. Of course, for Bach, I would like to play a recording of the B Minor mass, which was never performed in his lifetime.<br /><br />What could one possibly say to Socrates?Robert Paul Wolffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-35240753844795326162010-08-17T15:10:27.431-04:002010-08-17T15:10:27.431-04:00"The best proof we have that life is good, an..."The best proof we have that life is good, and therefore that there may perhaps be a God after all, who has our welfare at heart, is that to each of us, on the day we are born, comes the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. It comes as a gift, unearned, unmerited, for free.<br /><br />"How would I like to speak just once to that man, dead now these many years! 'See how we in the twenty-first century still play your music, how we revere and love it, how we are absorbed and moved and fortified and made joyful by it,' I would say. 'In the name of all mankind, please accept these words of tribute, inadequate though they are, and let all you endured in those bitter last years of yours, including the cruel surgical operations on your eyes, be forgotten.'"<br /><br />—J. M. Coetzee, <i>Diary of a Bad Year</i>Carlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02998793914690685677noreply@blogger.com