tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post8074785183121997579..comments2024-02-12T23:25:09.583-08:00Comments on Overweening Generalist: Peter Dale Scott, a Colleague of Noam Chomskymichaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13526042582094867513noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-78202068474483618132011-12-02T14:12:59.918-08:002011-12-02T14:12:59.918-08:00Thanks for the recommendation. I put Coming to Ja...Thanks for the recommendation. I put Coming to Jakarta in the poetry section of one of the bookshelves of my classroom, between Poems from the Sanskrit and Anne Sexton.<br /><br />I keep changing my mind about what to read. I think I will try to finish Proust by the end of next May. We will see.Eric Wagnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04312033917401203598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-38973373813939495182011-12-01T18:44:35.441-08:002011-12-01T18:44:35.441-08:00For PDS's ideas on Watergate and its possible ...For PDS's ideas on Watergate and its possible connections to Dallas - ala Oglesby and others - his big non-fiction books seem the place to delve. I can't tell you which book is the best for PDS on Watergate. Anyone here know?michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13526042582094867513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-15235074284222665512011-12-01T07:57:26.536-08:002011-12-01T07:57:26.536-08:00I would like to understand more of PDS's ideas...I would like to understand more of PDS's ideas about Watergate.<br /><br />For now, I took Ulysses off the shelf this morning, and I just read a few lines of Dante and Finnegans Wake. My Dante group will finish the Paradiso around the end of January. The Catholic Church calls 2012 the Year of Grace. I don't think they mean Grace O'Malley, but I would like to finish my Wilson/Joyce book next year. Bob told me I should read Ulysses 40 times. I have a long way to go.Eric Wagnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04312033917401203598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-25104044768282760962011-11-30T21:40:33.600-08:002011-11-30T21:40:33.600-08:00I'm glad you got something out of PDS, but who...I'm glad you got something out of PDS, but who can blame you if you hear the call of beerian Joyce?<br /><br />PDS, as Buddhistic as he is, still feels like an academic poet, and I don't mean that disparagingly. He often talks about academic life, and I find that interesting. But he never reaches the wildness of Ez or JJ. Not for me he doesn't.michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13526042582094867513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-70875850538180372452011-11-30T19:08:37.262-08:002011-11-30T19:08:37.262-08:00I just finished Coming to Jakarta, which I enjoyed...I just finished Coming to Jakarta, which I enjoyed. I can see where you relate Scott's vision to that of Stephen Dedalus. I also think of Pound's "The enemy is ignorance: our own." Reading this book made me feel very ignorant.<br /><br />I don't think I've really understood the music of Scott's verse. The section's whose sound I liked best evoked the music of Pound's poetry when Scott discussed Ez.<br /><br />Part of me wants to read more of Scott's poetry and prose, but at my back I hear Joyce's chariot, full of beer.Eric Wagnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04312033917401203598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-41594398494092741142011-09-22T19:34:28.039-07:002011-09-22T19:34:28.039-07:00@person who reached my blog by typing into Google,...@person who reached my blog by typing into Google, "Peter Dale Scott a Marxist?" <br /><br />I have seen ZERO evidence he's a Marxist. Rather, PDS would be considered part of the non-Marxist left-ish Unistat professors. But he seems to have some classically conservative views, too. By which I mean Edmund Burke-conservative. <br /><br />But mostly he's in opposition to the military-industrial complex, the one Ike warned us about.michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13526042582094867513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-56761348339569736562011-09-21T17:47:24.594-07:002011-09-21T17:47:24.594-07:00Isn't Riverside Public Library near? I don'...Isn't Riverside Public Library near? I don't know your area very well, except it's spread out, not condensed. If you have to drive 15 miles to get a book maybe it's better shelling for interlibrary loans.<br /><br />There are some fairly low prices on used Thomson books at half.com. Lately, whenever I buy a book frpm that site I usually pay twice for shipping what the book costs...and S/H is 3.49 bookrate last I looked.michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13526042582094867513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-68560581584262106242011-09-21T16:49:34.282-07:002011-09-21T16:49:34.282-07:00I followed the link at http://www.knowledgecenter....I followed the link at http://www.knowledgecenter.unr.edu/services/linkplusfaq.html , but it says I have to attend UNR to use it for free.<br /><br />I haven't read G. O'Brien.Eric Wagnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04312033917401203598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-89786723656630818502011-09-16T20:46:07.767-07:002011-09-16T20:46:07.767-07:00http://www.knowledgecenter.unr.edu/services/linkpl...http://www.knowledgecenter.unr.edu/services/linkplusfaq.html<br /><br />I think I see your public library, but I'm not sure exactly which one you use.<br /><br />I know well your David Thomson love. Have you looked at Castaways of the Image Planet by Geoffrey O'Brien?michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13526042582094867513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-38745247724343017762011-09-16T18:41:21.518-07:002011-09-16T18:41:21.518-07:00I will have to check it out. My first thought - p...I will have to check it out. My first thought - perhaps I can get those nine David Thomson books I haven't read. Last time I checked the Corona Library and the Riverside Library charged for interlibrary loan. I hadn't heard of LINK+ before. Thanks for the info.Eric Wagnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04312033917401203598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-52374778504342199682011-09-16T14:33:51.070-07:002011-09-16T14:33:51.070-07:00Good point about Ireland.
LINK + is not interlibr...Good point about Ireland.<br /><br />LINK + is not interlibrary loan, per se. Although you are getting books from another library system, you don't have to fill out a form or pay extra. The books shd arrive within 3 or 4 days, and you can renew them once, so you should be able to keep them for up to 5 weeks.<br /><br />This is all predicated on whether your local system has bought into the LINK+ system. Mine has, and I have access to something like 60 other libraries for "free" (local taxes pad for it).michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13526042582094867513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-47328450491306371362011-09-16T14:19:20.608-07:002011-09-16T14:19:20.608-07:00I don't like to use interlibrary loan except f...I don't like to use interlibrary loan except for books I can't buy cheaply. Books I order through interlibrary loan often seem to arrive when I don't have enough time to read them.<br /><br />Some societies value poetry but have other problems. Ireland puts a high value on poetry, but has challenges with alcohol and the puritanical aspects of its Catholic heritage, as well as the Catholic/Protestant conflicts.Eric Wagnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04312033917401203598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-37985493603670921832011-09-16T13:35:51.090-07:002011-09-16T13:35:51.090-07:00Does your library have LINK +? If they do, no prob...Does your library have LINK +? If they do, no problem: no cost, just have the books sent over to your closest branch, and set up for an email confirmation for when they've arrived.<br /><br />If you don't have LINK+, I've seen Coming To Jakarta: A Poem on Terror, the first in the trilogy, for .75 cents +$3.49 S/H via places like half.com<br /><br />Poets get almost ZERO respect in Unistat. Can you imagine a society so healthy that weighty poetry books regularly filled 6 or 7 of the NYT top 10 best seller list? <br /><br />Paideuma...michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13526042582094867513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-47352668507720774352011-09-16T13:23:41.541-07:002011-09-16T13:23:41.541-07:00Alas, my libraries don't have the Seculum tril...Alas, my libraries don't have the Seculum trilogy. Perhaps I will buy the first volume.Eric Wagnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04312033917401203598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-82577550239982566372011-09-16T13:08:19.682-07:002011-09-16T13:08:19.682-07:00@Mr. 1132: I wd think you'd be innarested in t...@Mr. 1132: I wd think you'd be innarested in the Seculum trilogy of poetry books (in the 811 section of the library), but if you want to get into the non-fic Deep Politics (in the 362 or 973s), check out The War Conspiracy first: it's older and he's built from there. That one gives you a good grounding re: his thinking style, his documentation, his voice. After that, Deep Politics and the Death of JFK. Cocaine Politics was written with Jonathan Marshall. IIRC. There were about five books roughly on that same subject that came out within a two-year period, all spooky, all seemingly indebted to McCoy's Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia, and I think I dialectally perused four or five of those at one time, all of them stacked next to my reading chair, and I can't say what was distinctive about PDS/Marshall there, as they're all intertwingled in my mind.<br /><br />After that, if you're still into it, fire away, Gridley. I did what I call a "deep skim" with The Road to 9/11 and found a predictably thick, seasoned, narrative about deep political reality. Honestly? It was at a moment in my life where I knew that if I sat down and read it cover-to-cover I might get all weirded-out, and I didn't want to do that to myself then, in one of my more fragile mindstates. <br /><br />PDS gives ginormous help in triangulating, quadrangulating, quint- along these lines, and your readings of RAW, Fuller, Pound, Chomsky, Oglesby, et.al<br /><br />People often compare me to General Douglas MacArthur, so I'll just go ahead and say it regarding PDS's 9-11 books: I shall return.michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13526042582094867513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-89366802201397175782011-09-16T07:39:44.303-07:002011-09-16T07:39:44.303-07:00My local libraries have _9/11 and American Empire_...My local libraries have _9/11 and American Empire_, _Cocaine Politics_, _Drugs, Oil, and War_, Obstruction of Justice_, _"Dark Star" and Other Cosmic Jams_, _The War Conspiracy_, and _Deep Politics and the Death of JFK_. Which one do you recommend I start with?Eric Wagnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04312033917401203598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-9173791969670363902011-09-14T21:07:51.337-07:002011-09-14T21:07:51.337-07:00The thing about PDS: he's probably still tryin...The thing about PDS: he's probably still trying to figure out who killed JFK.<br /><br />Among very many other areas of interest.<br /><br />If Anonymous has any other poets who SEEM similar in mind, I'd like to hear it. <br /><br />@Royal Academy: If/when you get to PDS, I'd be very interested to hear/read what you think.michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13526042582094867513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-27680033407942175622011-09-14T16:46:55.888-07:002011-09-14T16:46:55.888-07:00Patter Day Saints?Patter Day Saints?Eric Wagnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04312033917401203598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-38230007735778398192011-09-14T16:14:44.224-07:002011-09-14T16:14:44.224-07:00PDS is brilliant.PDS is brilliant.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-62893164503818382332011-09-14T07:41:34.809-07:002011-09-14T07:41:34.809-07:00Great post. So much to read. I liked the video c...Great post. So much to read. I liked the video clip, and I like that he says he doesn't know who killed JFK.Eric Wagnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04312033917401203598noreply@blogger.com