tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22656823.post7027026468185592653..comments2023-08-19T03:32:21.869-04:00Comments on My year of living Rangerously: My anti-intellectualism is showingMannie Gentilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06225923971073419275noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22656823.post-4355304986373417882008-09-13T19:37:00.000-04:002008-09-13T19:37:00.000-04:00Mannie, having been through this myself in the las...Mannie, having been through this myself in the last couple of years, my advice to you is to take a nap for a couple of hours. Half of it will make sense when you wake up. The rest is filler. For some reason, eventually everything seems to make sense. Six weeks before you graduate suddenly you discover that you have actually learned something and that you are now smart. The problem is you only get to enjoy being smart for a couple of weeks and then you graduate.<BR/><BR/>John C. NicholasAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22656823.post-66002252322996602212008-09-13T11:39:00.000-04:002008-09-13T11:39:00.000-04:00Ahh...a lovely passage from D.H. Fischer's _Histor...Ahh...a lovely passage from D.H. Fischer's _Historian's Fallacies_. It's a classic MannieKevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16445268373019332557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22656823.post-41795952417881739012008-09-12T19:47:00.000-04:002008-09-12T19:47:00.000-04:00Mannie,If only they wrote in plain English. If tha...Mannie,<BR/>If only they wrote in plain English. If that was the case then I think I would learn what they are trying to share a little more quickly.<BR/>Cheers, JohnAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22656823.post-7452463704753595732008-09-12T12:50:00.000-04:002008-09-12T12:50:00.000-04:00Ummmmm ... what???BarryUmmmmm ... what???<BR/><BR/>BarryAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22656823.post-4154267826054422392008-09-12T10:16:00.000-04:002008-09-12T10:16:00.000-04:00Mannie,Good goin'! Have fun reading all those boo...Mannie,<BR/><BR/>Good goin'! Have fun reading all those books with colons in the title! Imagine if everybody used them - "No Country for Old Men: A Story of Nothing Good Happening in 1980" by Cormac McArthy. or "The Old Man and the Sea: A Story of an Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway. What a wonderful world it would be.<BR/><BR/>Paradigms, memes, didactics...happy happy joy joy!<BR/><BR/>See you this weekend!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com