“Myth Is a Theorem About the Nature of Reality” Robert Bringhurst is known for writing the best-ever work on typography and book design. Here he talks about the trans-human function of myth, and about being an independent ex-university intellectual.https://www.guernicamag.com/myth-is-a-theorem-about-the-nature-of-reality/ …
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Replying to @Meaningness
I heard about him in the context of mythopoetry much before I knew about his fame in the post-Helvetican world. That's because I chanced upon this
book in a sale and fell in love with the world he was bringing forth https://www.amazon.com/Story-Sharp-Knife-Mythtellers-Masterworks/dp/1553658396 …1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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Whoa, that’s awesome! It’s amazing that one guy can master, and go beyond mere mastery, in such different fields
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Replying to @Meaningness
No doubt about it - his achievements are impressive. And if I may add, entirely impossible within academia as it is today.
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Replying to @ranganaut @RKasturi
Utterly, yes. I fear the consequences of this for our future. Universities have been the holders of culture—preserving, renewing, and extending it—for nearly a thousand years; ending about now.
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Much more than a thousand years in India, of course! Supposedly I’m writing a novel set in part at Nalanda… back-burnered, I’m afraidhttps://buddhism-for-vampires.com/the-telling-of-the-tale …
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