March 2001 - web version
MEISTER ECKHART WORKS
In English (excerpts - from the Pfeiffer/Evans/Watkins edition):
Those who accept all that the Lord send, as the very best, remain always in perfect peace, for in them God's will has become their will. This is incomparably better than for our will to become God's will. For when your will becomes God's will--if you are sick, you wish not to be well contrary to God's will, but you wish that it were God's will that you should be well. And so in other things. But when God's will becomes your will--then you are sick: in God's name; your friend dies: in God's name!* The very best happens to us!
* God is above all understanding
* Creatures' comfort is only on the surface
* On love
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I. Die dunkle Zeit
II. Der große Tröster
III. Der Seelsorger
IV. Im Rausch der Sprache
V. Die Predigt-Spekulation: der Eine und das Eine
VI. Der große Intellektualist
VII. Platoniker und Mönch: die Versuchung der Reinheit
VIII. "lch bin der Sohn" - "Wir sind der Sohn"
IX. Eckharts Erbe und die Erben.(140 KB)
* We still publish Heer's "The First German Movement in its European Setting", but this one is a far better text; time to dig up that German dictionary!
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DC social
commentary(...) "Some readers believe that David is simply a portrait of a typical young gentleman of the early Victorian age. He has a middle-class gentleman's education (a good secondary school but no university degree). He holds some liberal beliefs; for example, he criticizes Doctors' Commons and the parliamentary debates. But on the whole he is a supporter of the Establishment. He doesn't question the social conventions that judge his friend Emily to be "ruined" because she has had an affair. He's convinced that it's important to work hard, succeed in a career, and make money. He believes in God, but only as a vague idea- you never see him going to church as an adult. He places a high value on domestic harmony, and thinks that a woman's place is in the home." (...) Read more
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Copperfield as Dickens' autobiography?
(...) "I seem to be sending some part of myself into the Shadowy World," Charles Dickens wrote in a letter just before he finished the final chapter of David Copperfield. Dickens, as a matter of course, became intensely involved with all his books while he was writing them. His daughter once recalled how her father would sit in his study, speaking the characters' speeches as he wrote them, making faces, giggling, or sighing with emotion. But in 1869, the year before he died, Dickens wrote that Copperfield was still his "favourite child." Why was he so attached to this novel, of all the masterpieces he had created? (...) Read more
More topics:
The Agnes-David-Dora Love Triangle
Mr. Micawber - a characterisation
OnlineClassics.com suggests Simon Callow's "The Mystery of Charles Dickens"
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Student Support serves as a quick guide to the Copperfield site Dickens study tools. If you are looking for help on your paper, this is the place to start from.
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It's about 3 weeks since the David Copperfield Poll started but the winner seems clear enough. The game now is more between Betsey and Micawber who struggle for the second place. Here are the current totals:
Dora: 3%
Mr. Dick: 8%
Betsey Trotwood: 21%
Mr. Micawber: 18%
Agnes : 36%
Other : 11%Enter to vote (if you haven't already) and read comments and suggestions of other voters.
Lucy Zach writes: David's hero is Steerforth- straight up
Steerforth is the hero. Even after Emily's kidnapping, David never lost his interest and admiration of Steerforth. He may not be in the sense of virtue and doing the right thing like Mr. Peggoty or Mr. Micawber, but he still appealled greatly to David in that he was very powerful and even as a boy was able to overcome his opposition. Read more...
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Student Land /Writing Community :
Josh Friend on Psychological reasons to writing an autobiography:
"The byproducts of any work of literature are almost cause for psychanalyzation. Principally, the idea of self-concept would envoke any person to write their life's story. The success in doing so would implicate overall success as a person. This is a psychological state that someone might have in a 'mid-life crisis'. Though in the stages that one goes through to accept death (research Thanatology) reassurance that their life was fulfilling is one important step. Narsissism is also a possible psychological state that would cause someone to write an autobiography; that is self-love."
Read the discussion and participate!
More topics:
Are there any internet sites on the realist literature movement?
Brandy Q recommends The Missouri Review
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Best of the web : a talk
Them & the book
He was an actor and a speaker from a baby, as he wrote, and it seems like all his writings were meant as an exercise of observation, to make him more real a man - able to return to the stage more genuine an actor. He learned without asking ("I looked nothing, that I know of, but I saw everything"), he couldn't give back his vision by just speaking - he needed to be seen like he saw, to let the others observe him like he observed them. Read more...
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Troubleshooter
What can you do if you want to disable Windows 2000 auto-recovery function (you know, when you try, e.g. to replace win notepad with another editor and Windows keeps restoring the original file).Open a simple text editor and paste these lines:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
"SFCDisable"=dword:00000001
Save the file as something.reg and double click it to update the Windows registry.
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Critical updates
[March 7, 2000] IE can Divulge Location of Cached Content.
[Feb. 26, 2000] Outlook, Outlook Express vcard handler contains unchecked buffer.
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Freeware downloads /System tools
Yankee Clipper III is a Win9x/NT4.0/ME/2000 clipboard memory/stacker that resides in the system tray. It acts as a silent sentry, continually watching the clipboard, waiting for a change in the contents. If a change is detected, YCIII saves a copy of the clipboard contents in the event you may want to reuse it. Clicking on the little clipboard in the system tray brings the Yankee Clipper to the top or makes it visible if it was hidden. Double-clicking on an item in the list, or selecting with the arrow keys and hitting <Enter> will place that item back in the clipboard.
TrayManager lets you control the explosion of icons in your system tray by creating a submenu for the icons you use less frequently. The original TrayManager worked only under Windows 95 and Windows 98. Version 2.0 adds support for Windows ME, Windows NT 4, and Windows 2000, and a new feature restores the icons in your system tray after an Explorer crash.
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Windows Owns Desktop, Extends Lead in Server Market
As Microsoft's appeal of its antitrust violations finally gets underway, an International Data Corporation (IDC) study highlights Microsoft's market dominance on the desktop--and increasingly, on the server as well. According to the report, Microsoft's desktop share has grown from 89 percent last year to 92 percent this year. But what's even more amazing is that Microsoft's share of the server market has outgrown upstart Linux, leaping from 38 percent of the market last year to 41 percent this year. Linux also grew, but at a slower rate than in the past, and the growth of this open-source OS is apparently coming at the expense of Novell and various versions of UNIX, not Windows 2000 and Windows NT. Linux grew from 25 percent of the market last year to 27 percent this year. Read more...
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