tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post327158002009108881..comments2023-11-03T11:32:01.540+00:00Comments on Thought Experiments : The Blog: On Ignorance and Lawrence DurrellBryan Appleyardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08276787058430388582noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-33171216335831588832008-12-13T00:15:00.000+00:002008-12-13T00:15:00.000+00:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-44375209043236439762008-07-10T14:06:00.000+00:002008-07-10T14:06:00.000+00:00That cheered me up on an otherwise rather grim aft...That cheered me up on an otherwise rather grim afternoon in Manchestere, Malty, cheers!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-38068179829981699422008-07-10T13:52:00.000+00:002008-07-10T13:52:00.000+00:00elberry, now and again you summing up is a joy to ...elberry, now and again you summing up is a joy to behold, I deeply admire people who can express in a minimum of words what others take for ever to do.<BR/>I award you the dynamiters medal for one liners.maltyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02936465848907794425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-30384754147657187522008-07-10T11:13:00.000+00:002008-07-10T11:13:00.000+00:00Don't know how the V22 Osprey didn't make it onto ...Don't know how the V22 Osprey didn't make it onto that list. Or maybe it's so bad it doesn't actually count as an aircraft.<BR/><BR/>Not everyone pretends to know more than they do - it's a hazard of the intelligent and, even more, the half-intelligent. Regular people seem better at just shrugging about things. Sometimes, very intelligent people, after a lifetime, arrive at this same shrug.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-69498046500234283412008-07-09T20:38:00.000+00:002008-07-09T20:38:00.000+00:00Here is the kind of thing that makes us humans thi...Here is the kind of thing that makes us humans think "everything is connected." I was on the train from Wash., D.C., to Philadelphia today and absorbed in reading a two-part (I had to go through the train to find Part II, and ultimately had to borrow it from a sleeping conductor -- alas, I had to wake him to get it) story in the Washington Post's Style section. This story was about a guy named Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-70878256042661590232008-07-09T17:24:00.000+00:002008-07-09T17:24:00.000+00:00Here I sit on the high prairie of North America, j...Here I sit on the high prairie of North America, just east of the Rockies near the Canadian border. I keep a box full of Lawrence Durrell and Gerald Durrell paperbacks which cost me very little as books and a great deal in terms of postage. Right now I'm working through "Constance" which is about the beginning of WWII, seen through the eyes of the usual small band of aesthetes. <BR/><BR/>To memscriverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13567509503405689139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-16645589227053550272008-07-09T16:29:00.000+00:002008-07-09T16:29:00.000+00:00I'm not positive, Neil, but I think it is called "...I'm not positive, Neil, but I think it is called "pattern recognition" and that it is more dominant as we age.Randyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03071928294799081845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-51790194106171815862008-07-09T13:56:00.000+00:002008-07-09T13:56:00.000+00:00I don't think ignorance increases with age (surely...I don't think ignorance increases with age (surely not), but there should be an improvement in one's ability to recognise one's limitations. That guy John Sebastian puts it better I suppose.<BR/><BR/>Life is fragmented. Our instinct is to piece it all together to try make some kind of sense of it. Otherwise, we'd go mad. As Iris Murdoch put it, we see parts of things, but we intuit whole things.Neil Forsythhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00240393170374161007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-33636550176106912622008-07-09T13:08:00.000+00:002008-07-09T13:08:00.000+00:00You do wonder if there’s a residual resentment tow...You do wonder if there’s a residual resentment towards Durrell in England: his cosmopolitanism, abundant gifts & ambition & that late but significant success; and “Pudding Island” as he once called her rarely forgets a slight. He was a master of the lyric too, & it’s depressing how unfamiliar that work is to the majority – Peter Porter wrote that A Private Country was the most accomplished poeticElectric Alicehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17962512500125103648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-61995293711138596552008-07-09T12:19:00.000+00:002008-07-09T12:19:00.000+00:00As I gaze out at my A Level classes the thought of...As I gaze out at my A Level classes the thought of them becoming even more ignorant is simply too terrible to contemplate.George Streethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14935308467947775528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-15092616757796070862008-07-09T11:47:00.000+00:002008-07-09T11:47:00.000+00:00Bryan, I hope you're wrong about ignorance increas...Bryan, I hope you're wrong about ignorance increasing with age, otherwise I'm in real trouble...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-39926262626150618952008-07-09T09:46:00.000+00:002008-07-09T09:46:00.000+00:00In fact, Nige, I now remember walking along King's...In fact, Nige, I now remember walking along King's Parade discussing rainfall and you saying, "That's what's wrong with your method" in response to some hasty generalisation.Bryan Appleyardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08276787058430388582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-24046633581021008072008-07-09T09:21:00.000+00:002008-07-09T09:21:00.000+00:00As John Sebastian put it, Now I see that the more ...As John Sebastian put it, Now I see that the more I see the more I see there is to see...Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-42194099034302480402008-07-09T09:05:00.000+00:002008-07-09T09:05:00.000+00:00... my tendency to generalise or to race too quick...<I>... my tendency to generalise or to race too quickly to the big picture, which is, of course, the prime source of all error</I>.<BR/><BR/>I think you might be doing that again in this post, Bryan. Don't stop though, it's what makes this blog so interesting.Brithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00390560583798960760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-47576671905811005492008-07-09T08:34:00.000+00:002008-07-09T08:34:00.000+00:00I noticed that, Recusant, but probably lacked the ...I noticed that, Recusant, but probably lacked the confidence this morning...Bryan Appleyardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08276787058430388582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-50692688056075946542008-07-09T08:33:00.000+00:002008-07-09T08:33:00.000+00:00Talking about journalistic lack of knowledge, the ...Talking about journalistic lack of knowledge, the Royal Aircraft B.E.2 in that list of Worst Aircraft is described as having fought in WWII as opposed to WWI. Even I knew that, and I really am ignorant. Still, they do say that knowledge of your own ignorance is the first step on the path to wisdom.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com