A short tribute to NOLA food to the accompaniment of Pops and Bing. Pops’ favourite in featured image.
John Kennedy Toole
Speaking of autoscopic doubles (Toole-Ignatius Reilly) I’m working on a review of Cory MacLauchlin’s Butterfly in the Typewriter: The Tragic Life of John Kennedy Toole and the Remarkable Story of A Confederacy of Dunces. Cory reminds us that today marks the death of Toole. It is often said “how can one assess the greatness of the author on one work?” Well, one work is all it takes. As I’ve repeatedly said, Toole is right up there with Rolfe, Kafka, Musil and Mishima. It reminds me of the tired and dumb cliché that George Best never fulfilled his potential.
Autoscopic Doubles
This from NRP coinciding with the publication of Oliver Sacks’ latest book Hallucinations. My interest is in autoscopic phenomena in literature – that is, where does the boundary between the protagonist and the creator lie? Stay tuned.
When Hope Tramples Truth
Roger Scruton in the NYT column The Stone.
“Psychedelic” soul food
This from The Advocate
Wasted Days and Wasted Nights/They Ain’t Makin’ Jews Like Jesus Anymore
Two great C&W “characters”:
Freddy Fender
Kinky Friedman
EPISTEME: 10 most cited articles
Group Knowledge and Group Rationality: A Judgment Aggregation Perspective
Christian List
Volume 2 / Issue 01 / June 2005, pp 25 – 38
Margaret Gilbert
Volume 1 / Issue 02 / October 2004, pp 95 – 107
Group Knowledge Versus Group Rationality: Two Approaches to Social Epistemology
Alvin I. Goldman
Volume 1 / Issue 01 / June 2004, pp 11 – 22
Is Trust an Epistemological Notion?
Gloria Origgi
Volume 1 / Issue 01 / June 2004, pp 61 – 72
Minding One’s Cognitive Systems: When Does a Group of Minds Constitute a Single Cognitive Unit?
Robert Rupert
Volume 1 / Issue 03 / February 2005, pp 177 – 188
The Epistemic Features of Group Belief
Kay Mathiesen
Volume 2 / Issue 03 / October 2006, pp 161 – 175
Roger Koppl
Volume 2 / Issue 02 / June 2006, pp 91 – 106
What’s the Point of “Knowledge” Anyway?
Christoph Kelp
Volume 8 / Issue 01 / February 2011, pp 53 – 66
The Basis of Epistemic Trust: Reliable Testimony or Reliable Sources?
Melissa A. Koenig and Paul L. Harris
A Confederacy of Dunces – quotes and extracts – 4
“I dust a bit,” Ignatius told the policeman. “In addition, I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.” (p. 6).
New Orleans: best food city in the nation
Michael Oakeshott, The Philosopher Ploughman
At last, a good photograph of the poor portrait at Caius. Graham, the author of this piece in History Today, I know had been frustrated by the reflecting glass. Not a great painting: glad we didn’t use it for the Companion. Given the dearth of Oakeshott images, no doubt this one will be over used. It’s unfortunate that Oakeshott was lumbered with the Artist in Residence at Caius (1983-84). The artist doesn’t have a shot of this on his website – now I can see why. As someone put it to me so well:
Yes, I have seen Paul Gopal-Chowdhury’s Caius portrait of MO, in the flesh, here in Cambridge. It’s awful, and would seriously put off potential buyers. MO didn’t like it at all, and I think that wasn’t just vanity. It’s done in a smeary sub-modernist style, and is ridiculously portentous, with, if I remember rightly, the aged MO in profile sitting at a table and staring glumly at a potted plant, possibly watching it grow.
