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secret missives written to a few friend overseas.who wishes the beauty of great philosophy. whosesplash waves are wonderous to behold . as language unfolds its seam. as the wits of delay and philosophy love.
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finding hard to follow, show you a trick learned years to a go:
Read it aloud! it's as simple as that . The ideas will become more real as you hear and read them at the same time. True reading is a pedagogical skill! THere's a great novel by Italo Calvino If On A Winter's Night a Traveller Should... that describes wonderful moments of reading ....
I
learned this trick years back with a girlfriend. I was reading my way
through Saint Genet , Sartre's massive tome about the former, and I had
not found it easy. Well, I was out eating dinner with this lady, and she
asked me about what I was reading, and I said it was beautiful. but
difficult to read. but then she said or I said, let me read it to
you... and I began to read it right there and then to her while we sat
in this restaurant called the Mazurka, an old Polish place, and ideas
and connections that I had not been able to see before began to unfold
and I could see them like I never had before . They were glimmerings
before, but now they became clear ideas. And the weight of the writing,
its pace and the gigantic majesty almost of its connections was more
visible to me. Each book is written at a different rhythm, as I am sure
you'd agree.
And
this barely scratches the surface of saying anything about Sartre's
book. But to me it deems a whole area of study in philosophy: How we
read, how we are read to , and how we absorb the ideas in the process;
how are we taught, and what is the best manner to learn.
That
is why the seminars of Deleuze __ the oratory of his voice, and the
pedagogical moment __ of its unfolding as he spoke ____were important
and why it's important to hear him in them . Many are now on cd, or on
sites in the web. and more and more of the films and videos of him are
popular. Socrates always spoke aloud! I've used many of them as you
might have noticed in Rdeleuze and elsewhere.
Just
one other thing, A/O is written at a very different pace than the book
by Sartre, but it can still be read aloud, and I have done the same
thing with it as others, and it's worked like magic. Reading aloud is
the secret
of pedagogy!
So that's all for the moment, and have a good week of work. Your last posts
are yet to be read by yours truly, but have not been forgotten.
does not this feel like love. or the knot of the reel to reel as in perhaps a platonic cave? who says what came before the previous from and which reader knows these things in the heart of her flesh?
___________ But as you know I learned to read with my ears hearing aloud these men the teacher of his lectures himself the mooring of the waters around crashing at his feet ... and
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