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Note by ellopos.net: The connection of "time" with "architecture" may lead to a misinterpretation of Hugo's text. Hugo here does not imply a determinism, there isn't any Idea that emanates and is realised in time out of inevitable historical forces and their relations. On the contrary! "Time was the architect" means that the idea is in constant formation, that there is no architect at all save only partial contributions to this formation. Time, in this context, is not a mechanical process, it is not the clock-time, but the time of memory and will, where past can be something to be achieved in a future that will never become present. In this sense, time becomes a presupposition of history as an endless creation.

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Vladimir Lossky _ La dissemblance créée, l'intellect et la grâce

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... He (Iamblichus) divided Plato's dialogues to 12 parts and some of them he considered as physiological (about nature) and the other as theological. And again the 12 he contracted to 2, to Timaeus and Parmenides, of which two, he placed Timaeus at the top of all the physiological dialogues, and Parmenides at the top of all the theological.
Of those dialogues it would be worth for us to find the order, since anyone wants to read them. [...] We say therefore, that Plato's word has not a single and specific principle, but since it is perfect it is like the perfect form of a circle. And just as a circle does not have a single and specific start, so happens with the word.
But we should not, because of this, meet Plato's word in an accidental way, however it might happen. Because, even when we need to draw a circle, we must start from a specific point and follow an order.

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... Another of Plato's good points is that the answer to a problem, temporary, but also an answer, must be revealed in the mind like a lightning, which presupposes a passionate nature - you must really want it. But the lightning metaphor has also another dimension. If Plato is right, the limits, at least in this metaphor, are not defined by what you can not answer or by what you can not even ask, but by the very answer or the absence of an answer. This particular limit reveals the answer as something transcendental in relation with reasoning, as something that is not the output of reasoning, although reasoning has something to do with it. This is usually called with a rather misunderstood word, i.e. inspiration. If this word can indeed be used in Plato's metaphor, then inspiration needs a lot of work - you have to become a big tree in order for the lightning to strike you.

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... They’ll cough in the ink to the world’s end; / Wear out the carpet with their shoes / Earning respect; have no strange friend; / If they have sinned nobody knows. / Lord, what would they say / Should their Catullus walk that way? W.B.Yeats, The Scholars (at the margin of Plato)

... Enough of Science and of Art; \ Close up those barren leaves; \ Come forth, and bring with you a heart \ That watches and receives. W. Wordsworth, Up! Up! my Friend, and quit your books (at the margin of James Joyce)

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Eiichi Hara, "The King and the Apprentice: Writing David Copperfield" - A study of the novel as 'Bildungsroman', the development of a young hero (pdf).
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"When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem." - Edward Abbey

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Although written in the abstract language of the graduate seminar, Empire has an ominously pragmatic aim: to undermine faith in the liberal institutions that inform American democracy. It is a poisonous book whose ultimate goal is not to understand but to destroy society. Harvard University Press should be ashamed of publishing it. Sensible citizens should be alarmed that it is glorified by trendy intellectuals and the press. It is sometimes suggested that America’s culture wars are over. The adulation showered upon Empire and its authors, together with the horrible events of September 11, show that the real battles have yet to be joined.

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