[1] From: Jascha Kessler <jkessler@ucla.edu> (18)
Subject: Re: 11.0442 gleanings
[2] From: Jascha Kessler <jkessler@ucla.edu> (7)
Subject: Re: 11.0455 evidence
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Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 15:44:33 -0800
From: Jascha Kessler <jkessler@ucla.edu>
Subject: Re: 11.0442 gleanings
It is not only in literature that the accumulation of pieces of evidence
seems to impress some who take bulk for quality, as if Marx's dictum, which
was made into metaphysics, puerile at that, by Lenin (vide, dialectical
materialism, an oxymoron if ever there was one), that quantity transforms
quality ever made sense. Moses Finley's short book of the three lectures,
Oxford U was it? takes up the same issue for history, and how! As I
recall, he begins his lectures with the example of a recent vast tome on
Alexandrian shards, tens and tens of thousands, which taken all together
tell us...what? Cases do not speak, shards do not speak. It is a book
well worth reading, and short and full of much wisdom. Innumerates abound
among Humanists, but the computer has for us little to do with numbers,
etc. Sales figures are something else, to be sure.
Jascha Kessler
Professor of English & Modern Literature
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES
Department of English
Box 951530
Los Angeles, California 90095-1530
Telephone/Facsimile: (310) 393-4648
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Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 16:00:36 -0800
From: Jascha Kessler <jkessler@ucla.edu>
Subject: Re: 11.0455 evidence
And Northrop Frye knew not Alta Vista!
Jascha Kessler
Professor of English & Modern Literature
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES
Department of English
Box 951530
Los Angeles, California 90095-1530
Telephone/Facsimile: (310) 393-4648
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