"And it gave a lovely light"

"You said you burned the candle at both ends," Cooper offers. "And it gave a lovely light," Hitchens replies.


"My candle burns at both ends. It will not last the night. But ah my foes and oh my friends, it gives a lovely light. " -Roald Dahl


죽기전까지 그 빛을 보면서만 살 수 있다면 여한이 없으리

방법론적 개인주의, 복잡계

등이 사회학의 이론적 토대를 끌고 나갈 것 같지는 않다. 인지심리적 메커니즘들을 고려하지 않는 한.
방법론적 개인주의는 illusion of difference, two-mode network of actor-ideas, ignoring cognitive mechanism들에 (앞의 두 개는 내 용어들임;;) 비추어봤을 때 가정 자체에 문제가 있는 비현실적 이론.

The 'huge cost' of Agassi's tennis success

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/hardtalk/8944340.stm

you should hate it first, decide to leave, and then look back at it, in order to truly become yourself in what you're doing

근시안2

어빙 피셔가 대공황 직전에 미국 주식시장에 대해 한 말...

The stock market crash of 1929 and the subsequent Great Depression cost Fisher much of his personal wealth and academic reputation. He famously predicted, three days before the crash, "Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau." Irving Fisher stated on October 21 that the market was "only shaking out of the lunatic fringe" and went on to explain why he felt the prices still had not caught up with their real value and should go much higher. On Wednesday, October 23, he announced in a banker’s meeting "security values in most instances were not inflated." For months after the Crash, he continued to assure investors that a recovery was just around the corner. Once the Great Depression was in full force, he did warn that the ongoing drastic deflation was the cause of the disastrous cascading insolvencies then plaguing the American economy because deflation increased the real value of debts fixed in dollar terms. Fisher was so discredited by his 1929 pronouncements and by the failure of a firm he had started that few people took notice of his "debt-deflation" analysis of the Depression. People instead eagerly turned to the ideas of Keynes. Fisher's debt-deflation scenario has made something of a comeback since 1980 or so.

from father Oh

"나는 어떠한 가난한 이들의 집에 들어가도 함께 편하게 머물 수 있는가? 어떤 가난한 이들도 내 집에 들어와서 편하게 머물 수 있는가?" - 엘살바도르에서 가난한 이들의 삶의 자리에서 20년 동안 선교사로 사셨던 고 브랙클리 신부는 사회정의의 첫걸음으로 이 질문을 던지며, 당신도 힘들지만 노력하신다고 고백하셨습니다: Dean Brackly S.J., "The Call to Discernment in Troubled Times" (2004) 

depreciation and humor

should be always accompanied when knowledge is displayed

On Hitchens

MANN: Tardy thanks for Christopher Hitchens

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/dec/20/tardy-thanks-for-christopher-hitchens/

"Hatred, as he once said, “is a terrific way of getting you out of bed in the morning.” Like many others, I loved him for his hatreds."


"Here was a professor who could teach more than most people could learn. Given his superhuman brainpower, it was always a surprise to rediscover that he was actually human. I remember walking into his apartment one evening and seeing him and his daughter playing a board game called “Cat-Opoly,” a feline version of Monopoly. I was taken aback. Seeing one of the world’s top intellectuals engaging in cat-themed recreation was not what I expected. It was like hearing that Stephen Hawking listens to Britney Spears."


"Hitchens was fond of refreshments. His reputation as a beastly drinker was so stout that people seemed to forget he was a mammal whose thirst could (eventually) be quenched. I am somewhat proud, and somewhat ashamed, to say that I once imbibed enough Johnnie Walker in his presence for him to comment, “If I drank that much scotch, I’d be violent.” To this day, I do not know if he was complimenting or castigating me. (I took it as a compliment.)"

Difference

Deconstructionism과 differance 개념은 가끔 유용할 때가 있다.
반추할 때
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deconstruction#From_Diff.C3.A9rance_to_Deconstruction