Worth a Few Minutes

Give this a look.

Plotinus

Digging around in my notebooks, I came upon this quotation. I failed to note who I quoted (don't make that mistake in your notebooks), but the quotation fits Plotinus:

He then offers his discovery, not as a detailed ordnance map with every woodshed in place, but as a cluster of hints, goads and lures, inviting the reader to a companion voyage of exploration..

A Reminder: Everyone's First Drafts are Shitty

Read the essay.

Another translation of Monday's Reading

http://classics.mit.edu/Plotinus/enneads.mb.txt

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Reading for Monday, Nov 10

Read the entire tractate.

Richard Smith: A Conversation with Henry David Thoreau

The Mountain Goats - Going To Queens - 3/1/2008 - Independent

Reading Poetry

A link to a funny, suggestive essay about reading poetry.  Some of the advice works for philosophy too.