This is Public Occurrences

"And I am convinced that from the head of all ponderous

profound beings, such as Plato, Pyrrho, the Devil, Jupiter,

Dante, and so on, there always goes up a certain semi-visible

steam, while in the act of thinking deep thoughts."


-Herman Melville, Moby Dick.

China's Great Wall of Silence: The Murder of Bian Zhongyun

Link to video in Chinese language on the murder and on Song Binbin (nom de guerre, Song Yaowu; American name Yan Song) and Deng Rong (daughter of Deng Xiaoping).
http://youtube.com/watch?v=aDeUA52hngQ

Link posted at http://ht251.blogspot.com/search?q=song+binbin

Happiness

"Look not too long in the face of the fire, O man!"
...

"Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden

thee;"


-Herman Melville, Moby Dick.

Homer yea! Plato and progeny nay!

"So, when on one side you hoist in Locke's head, you go over

that way; but now, on the other side, hoist in Kant's and you

come back again; but in very poor plight. Thus, some minds for


ever keep trimming boat. Oh, ye foolish! throw all these

thunder-heads overboard, and then you will float light and

right."


-Herman Melville, Moby Dick.


Plato. Aristotle. Descartes. Locke. Kant. They produced

Rationalism which produced World War I which killed

Rationalism.

Cursed Plato

"Only one sweeter end can readily be recalled--the delicious

death of an Ohio honey-hunter, who seeking honey in the

crotch of a hollow tree, found such exceeding store of it, that

leaning too far over, it sucked him in, so that he died

embalmed. How many, think ye, have likewise fallen into

Plao's honey head, and sweetly perished there?"


-Herman Melville, Moby Dick

Melville,Kuhn, Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, Rorty.

"There is no steady unretracing progress in this life;"
...

"Let faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory; I look deep down and do believe."
...

"Science! Curse thee, thou vain toy..."

-Herman Melville, Moby Dick.

This is Public Occurrences

"We simply lack the capacity to protect New Orleans," Robert Giegengack, University of Pennsylvania, in the August, 2007 National Geographic.