"The things common to all men are more important than the things peculiar to any man." - GK Chesterton
"Look for smaller signs instead, the fine
disturbances of ordered things when suddenly
the rhythms of your expectation break
and in a moment's pause another world
reveals itself behind the ordinary." -- Dana Gioia
"The holiness of the ordinary." -- Walker Percy
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'Put your hand on A hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.'
do you take drugs danny ?
every day sir,,
good
Beyond the length of the nose, all vision becomes common.
--LJ Freeman
What the hell is "syntopical"? And don't tell me it's a GED ;) word, because it isn't in the dictionary.
It's a Mortimer J. Adler thing...the guy who revolutionized
Encyclopedia Brittanica.
Basically, and I've applied the term very loosely to this particular post, it means reading different books on a particular topic. To quote Jung, "One book opens another".
Here I've just used the idea of "syntopics" to present a similarity of thought I've stumbled across in recent days in different books. Ideas that have intrigued me.
For a nice precis (GRE word) of syntopical reading check this out.
I also recommend Adler's fantastic book: How to Read a Book.
You can read a book and it will tell you how to read? *head explodes*
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