Comments for The Great Whatsit http://www.greatwhatsit.com The daily organ of the Northeast Corridor Social Club Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:09:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 Comment on Columbusi by Tim http://www.greatwhatsit.com/archives/3120#comment-57901 Tim Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:25:17 +0000 http://www.greatwhatsit.com/?p=3120#comment-57901 First! I don't understand the "Columbus' egg" thing. Can anyone explain it? First!

I don’t understand the “Columbus’ egg” thing. Can anyone explain it?

]]> Comment on Thursday favorites: What it’s like by The Modesto Kid http://www.greatwhatsit.com/archives/3055#comment-57894 The Modesto Kid Mon, 13 Oct 2008 02:02:51 +0000 http://www.greatwhatsit.com/?p=3055#comment-57894 (Oh and speaking of Saramago: One of the things he does best is to use clichéed figurative language and then examine the usage and its ramifications. For example: "For several minutes he watched his courage desert him, it was like watching sand run through an hourglass, an overworked metaphor which nevertheless keeps recurring. One day, when we live two hundred years and ourselves become the hourglass observing the sand inside it, we will not need the metaphor, but life is too short to indulge in such thoughts...") (Oh and speaking of Saramago: One of the things he does best is to use clichéed figurative language and then examine the usage and its ramifications. For example: “For several minutes he watched his courage desert him, it was like watching sand run through an hourglass, an overworked metaphor which nevertheless keeps recurring. One day, when we live two hundred years and ourselves become the hourglass observing the sand inside it, we will not need the metaphor, but life is too short to indulge in such thoughts…”)

]]> Comment on Thursday favorites: What it’s like by The Modesto Kid http://www.greatwhatsit.com/archives/3055#comment-57893 The Modesto Kid Mon, 13 Oct 2008 01:56:33 +0000 http://www.greatwhatsit.com/?p=3055#comment-57893 I liked this analogy from Saramago, taken from a recent interview: the interviewer asks "But can literature really save your life?" and he replies, "Not as a medicine, but it is one of the richest springs from which the spirit can drink. Perhaps it can't do great things for the body, but the soul needs literature like the mouth needs bread." I liked this analogy from Saramago, taken from a recent interview: the interviewer asks “But can literature really save your life?” and he replies, “Not as a medicine, but it is one of the richest springs from which the spirit can drink. Perhaps it can’t do great things for the body, but the soul needs literature like the mouth needs bread.”

]]> Comment on Between then and now by swells http://www.greatwhatsit.com/archives/3075#comment-57892 swells Mon, 13 Oct 2008 01:33:50 +0000 http://www.greatwhatsit.com/?p=3075#comment-57892 LOVE the pine needles in relief against the blue sky! Congrats Pandora for spawning such artistry, for such language here, and also for seeing clearly enough to have your priorities straight on the day he asked. LOVE the pine needles in relief against the blue sky! Congrats Pandora for spawning such artistry, for such language here, and also for seeing clearly enough to have your priorities straight on the day he asked.

]]> Comment on Between then and now by Addison Feldspar http://www.greatwhatsit.com/archives/3075#comment-57891 Addison Feldspar Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:08:52 +0000 http://www.greatwhatsit.com/?p=3075#comment-57891 Wow, what an interesting post. It's almost like I've experienced that tension firsthand. Please tell the photographer that the pictures are stunning. They have inspired me to hopefully visit Chicago in the very near future. Wow, what an interesting post. It’s almost like I’ve experienced that tension firsthand. Please tell the photographer that the pictures are stunning. They have inspired me to hopefully visit Chicago in the very near future.

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