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

back to basics

Statistical dispersion, its types
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intra-individual_variability#Sources_of_statistical_dispersion
One unfamiliar one- distance std. dev.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distance_standard_deviation

Parsons, Homans, and Sorokin

에 대한 재밌는 일화들을 들었다.

파슨스 과목을 5-6개 들어야만 했던 예전 시절.
파슨스가 홍콩에 갔던 이야기
파슨스와 호만스의 안좋은 사이...(같은 커미티 안에 넣으면 안됐음) 'social relations'를 만들때 파슨스의 축사를 호만스가 짜른 얘기ㅎ (호만스가 부유한 집 (아담스 패밀리?) 출신이라 약간 고고함)
소로킨에게 돈을 대준 러시아 사람(이름 까먹음.. 러시아의 큰 백화점 아들이었는데 일본에 가서 5년 공부하고 (이때 라이샤워를 가르침), 옌칭에 와서 부소장인가를 하다가 그때 소로킨을 지원해줌)

Anti-Stalinist left

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Stalinist_left

근시안

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Queneau

아무리 그럴듯해도 근시안 속에 사는 사람들...

Queneau questioned the Surrealist support of the USSR in 1926. He remained on cordial terms with André Breton, although he also continued associating with Simone Kahn, after Breton split up with her. Breton usually demanded that his followers ostracize his former girlfriends. It would have been difficult for Queneau to avoid Simone, however, since he married her sister, Janine, in 1928. The year that Breton left Simone, she sometimes traveled around France with her sister and Queneau.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Thousand_Billion_Poems
https://www.google.com/search?gcx=c&ix=c1&q=Hundred+Thousand+Billion+Poems&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&biw=1333&bih=645&sei=%201O-0TpvvLK6u2AWSoMT5Bg