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The Eric Metaxas Show
"coleridge" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"So that I could start to see what he was what he saw. And so when did the connection come? It's one thing to say I want to do that, which sounds reasonable. But then when you make this leap that you're going to use the works of England's greatest poets wordsworth and Shelley and coleridge and all of these great poets of that era of the romantic period. When did that come in? Because that seems genuinely crazy. Because as I was reading it, what would happen is I think like, oh, I see what he says. It's kind of like what wordsworth said. Or I see what the saying is kind of what is in the poetry of keats and I'm a big fan of these romantic poets, Keaton, wordsworth and coleridge, and I started to, at first, I thought, well, okay, it didn't mean anything. I cohere, but then it started to occur to me that there was a very good reason for this that the times that they lived in were so much like the times we live in now that it was almost uncanny. It was really the moment when God died. It was really the moment when the idea that there was a Supernatural meaning to life that was real. Vanished and the romantics, people talk about the say a lot of silly stuff about the romantics. I'm always, I'm always yelling, it's even some of the authors who are blurred me. I'm always yelling at them when they say, oh, the romantics as if there were one group of people. But a famous critic named Jacques barthas, they weren't one philosophy. They were just all trying to solve the same problem, which is if there is no Supernatural meaning to life. Is there any meaning to life? And where does it come from? And what the certain of the romantic poets, the certain of the English romantic poets did, was they started to try and rebuild what they didn't realize was the Christian ethos. In a relationship with nature instead of God and a relationship between consciousness and nature instead of with God. But many of them were inspired by coleridge, who was probably the smartest man alive then and maybe the smartest man who ever lived. And he was an absolute mess of a human being. There's an opium addict and just a hysteric and just a mess. But he was a genius, and he was the one of them who had faith. He was the one of them who believed his faith changed over time and was sometimes offbeat and sometimes more standard, but he had faith. And he appears in the I tell the stories. There's a book for people who don't read poetry. It's not a book for people who love poetry. It's a book for people who want to know about poetry. And he appears coleridge like a spirit again and again. So wordsworth has invested all his belief in the French Revolution. And then the French Revolution turns into a nightmare, and he's lost, whereas with his lost, one day, he looks out the window, and there's coleridge, who leaps over the fence and comes to his house, and the two of them then have a conversation that lasts for a year because coleridge never shut up. He never stopped talking. But you see within the anger is worth the pain and before the lightning fades and you surrender. Come to the time hey there folks, are you listening to a special edition of this program we are airing my September conversation with the great Andrew clavin at Socrates in the.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Andrew Klavan Discusses 'The Truth and Beauty'
"Things that I just loved about this book, and there's so many things. But you bring these figures to life. When you describe coleridge and keats and all of them. And I realized that's something that also had fallen out of fashion by the time that I was in college. In the 80s, where we didn't seem to care about these figures as figures. And you sort of you bring them to life. So in some ways, it's not a novel, but there are a lot of fun stories in this book about amazing, crazy, brilliant people trying to work these things out in their lives and in their art. But if you think about it, Britain is an island the size of Oregon. And on it in this one generation, or it's two generations of the same time, is coleridge, wordsworth, Blake, Shelley, keats and Byron. The 6th greatest poets in the English language besides Shakespeare and Milton are all living together on this island. And so they're all nuts because they're poets. They're wild men. They're falling apart half the time. Coleridge is an absolute ruin of a human being. Byron has screwing everybody male or female, he can get his hands on. Shelly wants to be doing that. But isn't quite. And then, and one of the people that I deal with is Mary Shelley, one of my favorite chapters in the book is on Frankenstein because Mary Shelley adores Shelley. She adores this man she's run off with his left his wife and she's run off with them. And she adored and worshiped her father and now she adores and worship Shelley. And he's basically treating her as Byron and Shelley treated all the women they came in. He was basically like crap. And he believes in free love and he doesn't know why she's so depressed when her children die. He's depressed. She's not paying attention to him. And she writes this book, Frankenstein, where she says it's about a man who tries to steal God's thunder by creating life. But I point out that we all create people create life. We create life of the things that we have. What Frankenstein, what doctor Frankenstein does is increase life without a woman. And her nightmare is essentially the nightmare of femininity, the female aspect of life and femininity and womanhood, becoming obsolete.
The Eric Metaxas Show
The Socrates in the City Event Featuring Andrew Klavan
"Are airing my conversation from Socrates in the city with the extraordinary Andrew clavin. One of the best ever, if you want more information, go to Socrates in the city dot com. And now, here is that event. But in Paradise lost, Milton is trying to show that there's a difference between rebelling against a king, which he had done. He had endorsed the beheading of Charles the first and had to run for his life after Charles the second came in, and he was trying to show the Paradise lost as his attempt to show the difference between that and rebelling against God, which is rebelling against goodness and creation. And so that idea, how do we now rebel against kings and rebel against the church and yet not rebel against God was where wordsworth and coleridge kind of started without even knowing it. They didn't know they were doing this. He was so brilliant. But they wrote this book called lyrical ballads, which transformed English poetry. And it's a book in which they sort of say, we're going to show how the imagination in collaboration with reality transforms and enchants reality and how it brings even the smallest of people, nobility. And they basically reinvented this Christian ethos through nature through looking at nature, which they didn't, like I said, Colbert knew he was doing it, but words were, I'm not sure actually understood words with ended his life as a Christian. But it took him a long time to come there. And they sort of passed this journey on to John Keats, who was the greatest English poets and Shakespeare. He lived 25 years, he had about one month about 6 weeks of writing some of the greatest poetry that has ever been written and then got tuberculosis and died. And this period of great creativity. I just want to say there's one thing because it's so fascinating to me. His brother had died of tuberculosis, his poetry was getting terrible reviews. He was poor. He had a coffee. He started to think, oh my God, I'm getting tuberculosis. He's absolutely depressed. He can't write. He's taking a walk in Hampton heath, and he looks up and who's coming toward him coleridge.
Overthrowing Education
"coleridge" Discussed on Overthrowing Education
"I really, really appreciate that. I think it's very exciting. I mean, I really do. Like not that there's nothing to be afraid of, but I mean, you know, the first time I ever fell in love with this thing was when I put in xanadu by coleridge, Kublai Khan, group of components, insanity, and Kublai Khan. Oh, it's cool. It's called KubeCon. And asked it to finish it. And it did. And it was completely you would if you told me that that's how coleridge finished the poem, I would have absolutely agree, right? Yeah. Interesting, interesting. And it's capable of and I was just like, there's just got to be insight in here in some way that we don't have. For sure. There's also the whole scholarly aspect of it. One thing that I think it can really be useful in is reconstituting damaged poems. Like the epic of Gilgamesh and so on. I mean, I'm working on a few of those things as well. But it's hard to find a collaboration for it. But if a machine can recreate coleridge, it can speak as coleridge. It must be able to tell something about courage. I just have to believe that. There must be some way to get insight into coleridge from that. But, you know, I think that's a whole other dimension of this of this problem. Yeah, yeah. Oh my goodness. Totally, we could go on, but I think you have earned the right or are being punished
The Eric Metaxas Show
"coleridge" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"And they didn't teach this stuff. They were already into Foucault and Derry di. And why don't you go blow your brains out before you read the next poem? You know, that level of depth of literary criticism. And I have to say that when you get into this and you understand how it happened, there's something really beautiful about it. I mean, you talk about its lyrical ballads. Is that the name of the book that coleridge wrote with wordsworth with wordsworth? Talk about that. We just got 60 seconds, but talk about that book. I was an absolute revolutionary book that changed the course of English poetry and really invented a new way of looking at the world for a new generation. I mean, really people there were stories about people who had been massively depressed and then read this book and sort of came back and started to understand the world better. And it really was this collaboration of coleridge, this deep believer in Christianity, but at a very intellectual level, and wordsworth, this guy searching for meaning. And what he did was he turned wordsworth into a poet who could see in the smallest, most broken person could see something beautiful. And that's what wordsworth writes about in it, where coleridge writes about kind of Supernatural ideas that lead us back to God. We're going to, we're going to go to another break. We apologize for the breaks, but this is principally radio. We'll be right back talking to Andrew clavin, the book, which is out today, and which I recommend very highly is called the truth and beauty. Don't go away. All over the world. Look how it comes tomorrow that's when I have to choose how folks I can teach my conversation with Andrew clavin KLA van, the book out today. It's called the truth and beauty how the lives and works of England's greatest poets, point the way to a deeper understanding of the words of Jesus. And Andrew, part of the fun of this book is being reminded. Because you tell these lovely stories, these powerful, beautiful, funny stories of all these characters and how they interacted with each other because, you know, we think of them as names in the Pantheon. But the idea that Milton, for example, John Milton, who proceeds all of these figures. But that he was a human being and that he was this kind of a person and not that kind of a person. And how his work led to some of them. I guess it was wordsworth, right? Who was obsessed with Milton? Yeah, he wanted to rewrite basically Paradise lost the story of the fall of man. Milton's brilliant poem on the fall of man he kind of wanted to rewrite it as a mental event and he never quite got around to it. He never quite did it, but he was obsessed with art behind the glad he didn't. There's the one piece of bad advice college gave him. He told him he should be writing longer poems, but it was really words with shorter poems that are great. Well, it's so funny. But just the way they all interacted with each other. We forget really that that was the case, at least most of us forget that kind of thing. But you bring them to life. You also talk about keats. I mean, my goodness, he died at age 25. And according to you, and I want to ask you about this, you say that you think he was the greatest poetic genius since Shakespeare. Now there are a lot of poetic geniuses out there. What makes you have that, I guess, judgment about keats, because of course he wrote so little, ultimately, because he died so young, but what was it about keats that makes you kind of put him up there at the top of the Pantheon? It was really the, you know, it's really the truth and beauty his poetry is so beautiful to read and so dense, so packed with meaning the way Shakespeare's is that you could hesitate between two words without ever getting to the end of the way they reverberate off each other. The title of the book comes from him from his ode on a grecian urn in which he's basically contemplating how art leads us into eternity. And the grecian urn says at the end of the poem to humankind, it says beauty is truth, truth, beauty, that's all you know on earth and all you need to know. And that line, just like the lines in the gospel, always puzzled me. But as you read keeps his letters and you read more about what he was thinking, you realize that the kind of beauty he's talking about is not prettiness. It's not kind of something that you might have one thing that you like and I have something else that I like. It's this great shock of understanding that what you are seeing in front of you somehow resonates with a greater truth than what you're actually seeing with your eyes. And that moment, it kind of tells you that you are a God made machine for finding the truth. And the reason that matters is we're living in a world right now where your inner life, your inner experience, is either dismissed as subjective and therefore untrue, or it's elevated to the point of reality so that I can say, oh, guess what, Eric, I just turned into a woman and now you have to call me a woman because my inner life is sovereign and what all three poets coleridge wordsworth and keats were saying, no, you're in a collaboration with reality. Your inner life is a new creation of the reality that you have. And if it's not in keeping with the reality that is out there with God's creation, then it's not beautiful and it's not true. But when it is, you get this shock of beauty that is what poetry gives you and what real awake life gives you as well. It's a funny thing reality, isn't it? It really is. If you don't like reality, you're going to have problems..
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"coleridge" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"I mean, somebody mentions coleridge, okay, I've heard of the rhyme of the ancient Mariner. You mentioned keats, you mentioned it. These are figures that I had not really come to appreciate as human beings, just as these names behind poems. I'm really glad you bring this up because the whole thing was, I know that people don't read poetry. Poetry is dead. The art of poetry is for people like me who study English literature and who love English literature, but most people don't read it. And I didn't want you to have to know poetry or even like it to get into what I was saying. And these people lived some of the most interesting lives in literary history. There were 6 of them greatest poets who have ever lived living on the island, the British island at the same time. They were geniuses. They were drug addicts. They were scoundrels. They were brilliant. They fought with each other. They yelled at each other. I mean, this book starts with a wild, drunken party. They were all at the end. The whole books have been written about this party. So I just wanted to get you into their minds so that you could see that what they were doing, this challenge of rebuilding the consciousness of human beings for the modern age was a dramatic human challenge taken on by dramatic humans. And the thing about intellectual life when it's lived at that level is it's just as exciting as being an explorer or being a soldier or any of the things that we do. So this is more dangerous. When I look at some ways that are destroyed, when you think of a Byron Mary Shelley, it's an interesting thing because we have seen it in our time. You parallel this era of the romantics from a little bit over 200 years ago with the modern era and the 60s. And we all see lives that have been destroyed, the abortions, the broken hearts, that just the drug deaths, right? It's very similar what you're writing about. I mean, when you talk about Byron's sister and all of this incredible, I mean, it's kind of funny because it is by Renee. The romantic poet, the byronic hero, living for himself. It's kind of like a nietzschean ubermensch before Nietzsche, right? Just breaking all the rules and destroying humans in his wake, just leaving humans in his wake. But there's so many of these characters and then some of them are really good people. I mean, when you look at wordsworth, keats. I mean, it's just, you know, I wish somebody would do a mini series a streaming series for Amazon Prime or something because these are amazing stories. And I know a number of these stories have been told here and there. But you, let's just talk about coleridge, for example. I really knew nothing about coleridge. And you, I mean, is there anybody funnier, more entertaining, more crazy, amazing, beautiful than Samuel coleridge? We should all know who he is, and you bring him to life. Yeah, and there are long paragraphs written about how much he talked. Just people were absolutely stunned by the wave of conversation that came off them. And every single one of them was changed. And when he met wordsworth when he first really got friendly with wordsworth, wordsworth was lost. You know, he was kind of a coleridge called him a semi atheist. He didn't know how to deal with the failure of the French Revolution. He had been a radical and now all his radical dreams were gone. He didn't have any money. You didn't know where he was going after a year of listening to coleridge pound him with talk. He became the greatest poet of his generation. And it was clearly from a collaboration with poet with coleridge that he had this vision of the human mind as being in collaboration essentially with God as he called it with the one great mind and that your life is a part of creation. Your life is continued creation. That was coleridge's idea that became wordsworth's idea. When he met keats, keats was on the verge of death keats died a very, very young man, one of the most tragic stories in the book, and keats was frozen. He was lost, and he had an hour or two hour talk with coleridge walking in the park, came back and in a couple of months, wrote 5 or 6 of the greatest poems ever written, really the greatest poetry since Shakespeare. And everything that coleridge touched as a broken man, this drug addict, this hysteric, this guy who's marriage was miserable. Everything he touched became magic, just lit up, and even Mary Shelley, I have a chapter on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. She was a little girl in coleridge came over her house and recited the rhyme of the ancient Mariner, and if you look at Frankenstein, the novel Frankenstein is filled with coleridge. I mean, coleridge is all through it. So he just changed everybody. It's pretty dramatic. I mean, and this is what I'm saying is that this is a story that I was unfamiliar with. And I was an English major at Yale..
The Digital Story
"coleridge" Discussed on The Digital Story
"And boy did it sound good, burned onto a DVD. Now this DVD was not for publication. In other words, I did not send it out to other people and stuff. So I had a little bit more latitude on what music I could choose from it. In other words, I could just choose any music that I wanted. And that was a lot of fun. That was really good. But I was so surprised at even presentations that had just average images. How compelling they were if the music was really good. And I just wanted to remember that, you know, that this audio component of our presentations is so important because it allows us to keep the viewers interest to keep them magically suspended within our grip, even when all of our images may not be equally strong. And so I was really impressed by the secret sauce that was music with these things. Number four, the story trumps the technology. So after a few moments on the good presentations, I actually forgot about the technical aspects of the images in just became entranced by the story they were telling me. And I thought this was really interesting. This is some sort of adaptation. Maybe that we do. I mean, I watch old black and white movies all the time and some of them, you know, leave a little to be desired, technically speaking. But it's the stories really good. I'm right there with what's happening. And I noticed that that was true with these as well. Even though the images were captured with a very kind of early digital camera in terms of where we are today. So even though the images were captured with what we consider an early digital camera, with the look of an early digital camera, if the subject material of the photos themselves was compelling, and if they were put together in a compelling way, then the technology really didn't make that much difference, at least not after a minute or so. So the story definitely trumps the technology and these things. And this is one of my biggest takeaways. And finally, number 5, age does and doesn't matter. So it does matter in the sense of seeing people that I knew 20 years ago. And seeing them, I know how they look today, some of them, and then seeing them 20 years ago. That was interesting to me. Things and people have changed so much in two decades that these presentations felt truly historical. They were like, wow, this is truly a historical presentation. So in that sense, age does matter, but it matters in a good way. It was neat seen these folks myself included from a couple decades ago. What I did notice though, and this is kind of harkening back to what I was talking about a minute ago, age didn't matter in the sense of picture quality and production. I acknowledge the times in the tools that were used to make these productions, and then moved on to the stories themselves in sort of suspended my disbelief as coleridge would say. You know, about the technical aspects of the production and just really got into the story itself. So in one sense, age did matter in that I got to see these people from the past and how they look 20 years ago. And in another sense, it didn't matter at all. In terms of the tools are so different than any especially compared to today's tools. My final thoughts on this. So watching still in motion got me wondering, are we obsessing about the right things today? Are we putting features in image quality above storytelling and longevity? As I was watching these after a few moments, the technology really didn't matter anymore. It came right back to the story and the music and the emotional parts of the presentation. So as I continue thinking about this, I was wondering, has anyone ever watched the Ken burns movie with a top of mind thought? I wish the pictures had a bit more dynamic range. Probably not, right? Probably not. You're watching Ken burns and he's pulling together all these images from going way back way back further than 20 years ago. And you just fall into the story because he's such a good storyteller. So I think it's a good exercise to revisit some of our slide shows from the past and think about the ones that we like better than others. And maybe there's some clues in the ones that we like better than others that can help us better understand the work that we're creating today. Because I sometimes think that it's easy the allure of technology and new cameras and lenses and image processing software and AI and all that stuff. The allure of that sometimes could be a little distracting and if we're not careful, it can pull us away from the things that really matter, which is, in the case of me watching still emotion, storytelling, people and music. Those were the things that jumped out at me. Dig out some of your old slide presentations. Watch them and see what you come away with. I'd
The Eric Metaxas Show
"coleridge" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Really having the guts to write this book because I can see how a lot of editors or publishers would try to steer you in different directions. And you, obviously, said to them, shut up. Here's the book. And I'm so glad I'm so glad you did. There's only one editor that I could think of. When I finished it and I put it, as you know, I put a lot of work into it, I thought gee, if this one editor turns this down, I simply don't know where else where else I'll go. So Webster Joanne sees now the publisher of zander van, but he was my editor on my memoir, and he took it instantly. I'm not surprised. He would be the one that I would suggest and God bless him for doing that. Because this is an important book, and I think that, as I said, the level of writing what you get into, what really delighted me, as I mentioned this earlier, how you bring to life figures that I didn't really think of biographically. I mean, somebody mentions coleridge, okay, I've heard of the rhyme of the ancient Mariner. You mentioned keats, you mentioned it. These are figures that I had not really come to appreciate as human beings, just as these names behind poems. I'm really glad you bring this up because the whole thing was, I know that people don't read poetry. Poetry is dead. The art of poetry is for people like me who study English literature and who love English literature, but most people don't read it. And I didn't want you to have to know poetry or even like it to get into what I was saying. And these people lived some of the most interesting lives in literary history. They were I mean, there were 6 of them greatest poets who have ever lived living on the island, the British island at the same time. They were geniuses. They were drug addicts. They were scoundrels. They were brilliant. They fought with each other, they yelled at each other. I mean, this book starts with a wild, drunken party. They were all at the whole books have been written about this party. So I just wanted to get you into their minds so that you could see that what they were doing, this challenge of rebuilding the consciousness of human beings for the modern age was a dramatic human challenge taken on by dramatic humans. And the thing about intellectual life when it's lived at that level is it's just as exciting as being an explorer or being a soldier or any of the things that we always say. This is more dangerous. I mean, when I look at some ways that are destroyed, when you think of a Byron Mary Shelley, it's an interesting thing because we have seen it in our time. You parallel this era of the romantics from a little bit over 200 years ago with the modern era and the 60s. And we all see lives that have been destroyed, the abortions, the broken hearts, that just the drug deaths, right? It's very similar what you're writing about. I mean, when you talk about Byron's sister and all of this incredible, I mean, it's kind of funny because it is by renes. The romantic poet, the byronic hero, living for himself. It's kind of like a nietzschean ubermensch before Nietzsche, right? Just breaking all the rules and destroying humans in his wake, just leaving humans in his wake. But there's so many of these characters, and then some of them are really good people. I mean, when you look at wordsworth, keats. I mean, it's just, you know, I wish somebody would do a mini series a streaming series for Amazon Prime or something because these are amazing stories. And I know a number of these stories have been told here and there. But let's just talk about coleridge, for example. I really knew nothing about coleridge. And you, I mean, is there anybody funnier, more entertaining, more crazy, amazing, beautiful than Samuel coleridge? We should all know who he is, and you bring him to life. Yeah, and there are long paragraphs written about how much he talked. Just people were absolutely stunned by the wave of conversation that came off them. And every single one of them was changed. And when he met wordsworth when he first really got friendly with wordsworth, wordsworth was lost, you know, he was kind of a coleridge called him a semi atheist. He didn't know how to deal with the failure of the French Revolution. He had been a radical and now all his radical dreams were gone. He didn't have any money. You didn't know where he was going after a year of listening to coleridge pound him with talk. He became the greatest poet of his generation. And it was clearly from a collaboration with poet with coleridge that he had this vision of the human mind as being in collaboration essentially with God as he called it with the one great mind and that your life is a part of creation. Your life is continued creation. That was coleridge's idea that became wordsworth's idea. When he met keats, keats was on the verge of death keats died a very, very young man, one of the most tragic stories in the book, and keats was frozen. He was lost, and he had an hour or two hour talk with coleridge walking in the park, came back and in a couple of months, wrote 5 or 6 of the greatest poems ever written, really the greatest poetry since Shakespeare. And everything that coleridge touched as a broken man, this drug addict, this hysteric, this guy who's marriage was miserable. Everything he touched became magic, just lit up and even Mary Shelley, I have a chapter on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. She was a little girl in coleridge came over her house and recited the rhyme of the ancient Mariner, and if you look at Frankenstein, the novel Frankenstein's filled with coleridge. I mean, coleridge is all through it. So he just changed everybody. It's pretty dramatic. I mean, and this is what I'm saying is that this is a story that I was unfamiliar with. And I was an English major at Yale. And they didn't teach this stuff. They were like already into Foucault and the Derry da. And why don't you go blow your brains out before you read the next poem? You know, that level of depth of literary criticism. And I have to say that when you get into this and you understand how it happened, there's something really beautiful about it. I mean, you talk about its lyrical ballads, is that the name of the book that coleridge wrote with wordsworth with wordsworth. Talk about that. We just got 60 seconds, but talk about that book. I was an absolute revolutionary book that changed the course of English poetry and really invented a new way of looking at the world for a new generation. I mean, really people there were stories about people who had been massively depressed and then read this book and sort of came back and started to understand the world better. And it really was this collaboration of coleridge, this deep believer in Christianity, but at a very intellectual level and wordsworth, this guy searching for meaning. And what he did was he turned words with into a poet who could see in the smallest, most broken person could see something beautiful. And that's what wordsworth writes about in it, where coleridge writes about kind of Supernatural ideas that lead us back to God. We're going to, we're going to go to another break. We apologize for the breaks, but this is principally radio. We'll be.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Author Andrew Klavan and Eric Discuss 'The Truth and the Beauty'
"Volks welcome back, I'm talking to Andrew clavin. Do you understand? I'm talking to Andrew clavin, he's written a book called the truth and beauty. It's an amazing book. It is at least brilliant, at least, brilliant. And it was just wonderful to read Andrew, I want to say, congratulations on really having the guts to write this book because I can see how a lot of editors or publishers would try to steer you in different directions. And you, obviously, said to them, shut up. Here's the book. And I'm so glad I'm so glad you did. There's only one editor that I could think of. When I finished it and I put it, as you know, I put a lot of work into it, I thought gee, if this one editor turns this down, I simply don't know where else where else I'll go. So Webster Joanne sees now the publisher of zander van, but he was my editor on my memoir, and he took it instantly. I'm not surprised. He would be the one that I would suggest and God bless him for doing that. Because this is an important book, and I think that, as I said, the level of writing what you get into, what really delighted me, as I mentioned this earlier, how you bring to life figures that I didn't really think of biographically. I mean, somebody mentions coleridge, okay, I've heard of the rhyme of the ancient Mariner. You mentioned keats, you mentioned it. These are figures that I had not really come to appreciate as human beings, just as these names behind poems.
The Eric Metaxas Show
"coleridge" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"As I say, I read the whole book yesterday. So it can't be that long. But it is just loaded with, I mean, we're going to go to a break, but just your bringing to life, characters with whom I had the most glancing familiarity like Samuel Taylor coleridge and keats and just to see them as human beings and that alone is a high recommendation to read the book. We'll be right back talking to Andrew clave in the book is the truth and beauty. Going to the end of life. Hey folks, if you listen to this program, of course, you've heard me talk at infinitum about my pillow and my friend Mike lindell. Well, Mike is just announced that you will receive one of his books and the book is next level insane. It is called what are the odds from crack addict to CEO. It's his story. You will receive it absolutely free with any purchase using the promo code Eric. Did you hear that? It would be a great time, by the way, to buy his warm and wonderful my slippers for a limited time. He's offering 50% off my slippers. We all wear them in my extended family, my slippers. Check it out. 50% off. Go to my pillow dot com. Click on the radio listeners square and use promo code Eric. You'll also get deep discounts on all my pillow products, including some overstock products such as individual towels, blankets, comforters and much more or call 809 7 8 30 57 that's 809 7 8 three O 5 7 to use the promo code, Eric. Volkswagen back, I'm talking to Andrew clavin. Do you understand I'm talking to Andrew clavin, he's written a book called the truth and beauty. It's an amazing book. It is at least brilliant, at least, brilliant. And it was just wonderful to read Andrew, I want to say, congratulations on really having the guts to write this book because I can see how a lot of editors or publishers would try to steer you in different directions. And you obviously said to them, shut up. Here's the book. And I'm so glad I'm so glad you did. There's only one editor that I could think of. When I finished it and I put it, as you know, I put a lot of work into it, I thought gee, if this one editor turns this down, I simply don't know where else where else I'll go. So Webster yells. He's now the publisher of zander van, but he was my editor on my memoir, and he took it instantly. I'm not surprised. He would be the one that I would suggest. And God bless him. For doing that. Because this is an important book, and I think that, as I said, the level of writing what you get into, what really delighted me, as I mentioned this earlier, how you bring to life figures that I didn't really think of biographically. I mean, somebody mentions coleridge, okay, I've heard of the rhyme of the ancient Mariner. You mentioned keats, you mentioned. These are figures that I had not really come to appreciate as human beings, just as these names behind poems. I'm really glad you bring this up because the whole thing was, I know that people don't read poetry. Poetry is dead. The art of poetry is for people like me who study English literature and who love English literature, but most people don't read it. And I didn't want you to have to know poetry or even like it to get into what I was saying. And these people lived some of the most interesting lives in literary history. There were 6 of them greatest poets who have ever lived living on the island, the British island at the same time. They were geniuses. They were drug addicts. They were scoundrels. They were brilliant. They fought with each other. They yelled at each other. I mean, this book starts with a wild drunken party. They were all at the end. The whole books have been written about this party. So I just wanted to get you into their minds so that you could see that what they were doing, this challenge of rebuilding the consciousness of human beings for the modern age was a dramatic human challenge taken on by dramatic humans. And the thing about intellectual life when it's lived at that level is it's just as exciting as being an explorer or being a soldier or any of the things that we accept. This is more dangerous. When I look in some ways that are destroyed, when you think of a Byron Mary Shelley, it's an interesting thing because we have seen it on our time. You parallel this era of the romantics from a little bit over 200 years ago with the modern era and the 60s. And we all see lives that have been destroyed, the abortions, the broken hearts, that just the drug deaths, right? It's very similar what you're writing about. I mean, when you talk about Byron's sister and all of this incredible, I mean, it's kind of funny because it is by renes. The romantic poet, the byronic hero, living for himself. It's kind of like a nietzschean ubermensch before Nietzsche, right? Just breaking all the rules and destroying humans in his wake, just leaving humans in his wake. But there's so many of these characters and then some of them are really good people. I mean, when you look at wordsworth, keats. I mean, it's just, you know, I wish somebody would do a mini series a streaming series for Amazon Prime or something because these are amazing stories. And I know a number of these stories have been told here and there. But let's just talk about coleridge, for example. I really knew nothing about coleridge. And you, I mean, is there anybody funnier, more entertaining, more crazy, amazing, beautiful than Samuel coleridge? We should all know who he is, and you bring him to life. Yeah, and there are long paragraphs written about how much he talked. Just people were absolutely stunned by the wave of conversation that came off. And every single one of them was changed and when he met wordsworth when he first really got friendly with wordsworth, wordsworth was lost. You know, he was kind of a coleridge called him a semi atheist. He didn't know how to deal with the failure of the French Revolution. He had been a radical and now all his radical dreams were gone. He didn't have any money, you didn't know where he was going after a year of listening to coleridge pounding with talk. He became the greatest poet of his generation. And it was clearly from a collaboration with poet with coleridge that he had this vision of the human mind as being in collaboration essentially with God as he called it with the one great mind and that your life is a part of creation. Your life is continued creation. That was coleridge's idea that became wordsworth's idea. When he met keats, keats was on the verge of death, he died a very, very young man, one of the most tragic stories in the book, and keats was frozen. He was lost, and he had an hour or two hour talk with coleridge walking in the park, came back and in a couple of months, wrote 5 or 6 of the greatest poems ever written, really the greatest poetry since Shakespeare. And everything that coleridge touched as a broken man, this drug addict, this hysteric, this guy was marriage, was miserable. Everything he touched became magic, just lit up, and even Mary Shelley, I have a chapter on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. She was a little girl in coleridge came over her house and recited the rhyme of the ancient Mariner, and if you look at Frankenstein, the novel Frankenstein's filled with coleridge. I mean, coleridge is all through it. So he just changed everybody. It's pretty dramatic. I mean, and this is what I'm saying is that this is a story that I was unfamiliar with. And I was an English major at Yale. And they didn't teach this stuff. They were already into Foucault and derrida. And one of all your brains out before you read the next poem, you know, that level of depth of literary criticism. And I have to say that when you get into this and you understand how it happened, there's something really beautiful about it. I mean, you talk about its lyrical ballads. Is that the name of the book that coleridge wrote with wordsworth with wordsworth? Talk about that. We just got 60 seconds, but talk about that book. I was an absolute revolutionary book that changed the course of English poetry and really invented a new way of looking at the world for a new generation. I mean, people there were stories about people who had been massively depressed and then read this book and sort of came back and started to understand the world better. And it really was this collaboration of coleridge, this deep believer in Christianity, but at a very intellectual level. And wordsworth, this guy searching for meaning. And what he did was he turned words with into a poet who could see in the smallest, most broken person could see something beautiful. And that's what wordsworth writes about in it, where coleridge writes about kind of Supernatural ideas that lead us back to God. We're going to, we're going to go to another break. We apologize for the breaks, but this is principally radio. We'll be right back talking to Andrew clavin, the book, which is out today, and which I recommend very highly. It's called the truth and beauty..
Breaking the Glass Slipper: Women in science fiction, fantasy, and horror
"coleridge" Discussed on Breaking the Glass Slipper: Women in science fiction, fantasy, and horror
"He didn't let himself touch the book until the sunlight in the room had moved in such a way that the sun was hitting the book. Like he couldn't touch it unless the sun hit it. And at that point he would let himself pick it up and take it down and actually read it. Oh my God, that is so coleridge. Great. Essential. Absolutely is. And yeah, it's, I love it. I love it. In a specifically, he didn't have that relationship with any other book. He had that relationship with this book of fairy stories with this book of fantasies, essentially, that were so formative to him. That explains so much about Kublai Khan. The rawness in richness of that poem. Yes, yeah, absolutely. All of the nightmare posts so called nightmare poetry of coleridge and stuff. I super love that. I'm going to drag it down a notch and say, I think having that idea of not touching something until the sun, the afternoon sun is on it. I think I'm going to use that for the next piece of chocolate cake I have. And I would be like, no, I can't touch it. It's gone past. This is something that has cropped up in the professional life as well. When we were thinking about the left hand of darkness, that was initially hailed as the first feminist sci-fi novel. And it engaged with concepts of gender in a way that hadn't really been seen in genre previous to it. But it was later criticized for not going far enough. And Le Guin herself, she seemed to be in constant dialog with these ideas and she wrote essay after essay, she even revisited essays that she'd written previously to quote correct the previous essay. So this, I love this. The process of reinvention, the process of constantly challenging yourself, encountering new ideas in a way it goes back to the kind of inquisitiveness of anthropology. Is this a core part of what makes lagoon lagoon? I think so deeply. And I think so almost, I don't want to say exceptionally, but I'm not aware of anyone else who interrogated their work so consistently and kind of relentlessly almost over the course of her career. And the thing is that I feel like what I love about it is that she didn't disown work, you know? She always recognized so far as I'm aware. The work that had come before, but she was in a kind of conversation with that work and with who she was. I could be wrong about this..
The Eric Metaxas Show
Lucinda From Moink Shares Her Story
"Her? You may already know her as the woman behind a company that I'm excited about. It's called moo plus oink equals moin. Do you get it? Box dot com lucinda. Welcome to the program. Well, thank you for having me, Eric. Well, now where do you come from? Well, I come from a small town called Lebel, and Missouri. In Missouri. They call it Missouri. I know it's Missouri. I mean, I know that you're not close to an airport if you pronounce it Missouri. You're a real missourian. Right? Something like that. Come on. So your story because I want my audience to get to know you and the whole story. But tell us the short version just to start of what is morning and moik box and the family farm. And just give us that. And then we're going to get into the backstory. Yeah, sure. Well, I'm an 8th generation farmer. 8th generation farmer. You don't look that old. How's that possible? Right. Thank you. You're an 8th generation farmer. Yes. Can you tell us how far that goes back? What year are we talking about? Well, since they came over and actually they came through New York than Virginia. And then they end up in Kentucky. But you don't even know when this is. I know in the early 1800s, we moved from Kentucky to Missouri, which is why I sound the way I was. But I was saying, but if I were part of an 8th generation something, I would give you dates. I give you the day of the week that we came over. I mean, 8th generation is so far back by American standards. I'm wondering if you didn't come across the land bridge, the Bering strait language from Siberia because we're talking way, way, way back. Okay, but so you are now, you're it. You're the 8th generation. Yes, so I was born raised and still hail from a town of 600 people. And so I grew up on a family farm, obviously. And when I was 11, my father died and my mother was left with 6 mouths to feed in a farm she couldn't afford. I know that seems crazy that she would have land everywhere and we would go hungry, but it's kind of like that water water everywhere and nothing to eat. And not a drop to drink. Yeah, nothing. What is that from Alvin? Coleridge? The ancient Mariner. And by the way, who cares? Go ahead. So anyway, didn't make sense to me. So I really made it when I grew up. I felt like it was my life mission to help family farmers be independent outside of big egg to be able to make a living to have an honest day's pay for an honest day's wage.
Hermetic Astrology Podcast
"coleridge" Discussed on Hermetic Astrology Podcast
"I feel very much akin to the romantics. Me too. I'm total romantic. And they're transcendentalists. Yeah. Right. Exactly. So I wanted to align myself with the romantics and I also just, I loved the image that it brought up for me because I thought, you know, in my writing as an astrologer, I want to be like the aeolian harp, which is a wind harp. And so the idea is that you let nature play the music for you. And so lord Byron, Samuel Taylor coleridge, these people, they would take loud nom or drink or whatever they did to trip out and they would lay down and listen to the wind play this harp. And they would have this mystical psychedelic experience because they were communing with nature, the music of nature. Very much almost like dream incubation, you know, the Greeks would, right? The asclepi and temples and all that. It's a receptive, right? It's a receptive feminine receptive, oh wow, it's so beautiful. Thank you for sharing that. Or it's like the chill out rooms that are. Music festivals. Right. So I feel like, you know, there's some level. I mean, the music of the spheres, too. It's a reference to that. When you're actually tuning in to astrology, you're listening to the music of nature. And you're letting that flow through you and inspire your words. Inspire the images that are flowing. And I'm glad you put it that way like letting it flow through because I think people have this idea that astrology is about these forces that are acting on you. And I don't see it that way at all. In fact, I don't see if you open, which is so big. But if you were open, you can allow them to flow through you, yes. But they're not, they're not, you know, I don't necessarily take a fatalistic view that they're compelling you or anything like that..
Bloomberg Radio New York
"coleridge" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"If trying to figure out the future of your business is keeping you up at night Are you seeing it come back at all At least you have company You're hoping to get political pressure Do you expect the Euro to strengthen Why even have this hearing Bloomberg radio Bloomberg the world is listening World markets headlines and breaking news 24 hours a day as Bloomberg dot com the Bloomberg business app And at Bloomberg quick take This is Bloomberg 11 three O Now a global news update That multi $1 trillion spending bill that's been stalled in Congress may see The White House as climate program being entirely cut from it The New York Times reports The White House has reconsidering the climate measures because of strong opposition from one senator from coleridge West Virginia Joe Manchin the program would replace Cole burning power plants with wind solar and nuclear energy And ambush attack in Houston Texas has left one deputy there dead two others wounded Police say the deputies were working at a bar when they went outside to investigate a disturbance and were shot from behind with a rifle Constable Mark Herman says the person responsible must be held accountable I hope for swift and quick justice for that individual Because he ambushed my debut A person of interest is in custody at least four were heard last night at a shooting at an Alabama high school football game Police in mobile say it happened on an exit ramp at led people's stadium at least two people took off from the scene two of the four victims are juveniles I'm Scott Carr.
Monocle 24: The Globalist
"coleridge" Discussed on Monocle 24: The Globalist
"Constant dynamic seeming. Impress coleridge the tunes. The full half indy onto the glass having someone who wants to be come on and in finding within the gambling and minsters that enable to prepare. Dvd's transformer into panty. Goals of achievement is more as they are. That is politics in many respects so so again he was going to be really interesting. To see is is a her first biggest solomon which is going to the united nations and liberal speech so that will be very interesting where you can see. The politicians work how she tries to the start projecting age that links foreign affairs nadeau need to. The government is doing but it was into herself so so this is something that that the criticism will suddenly start to find the seeds of answers over the next few weeks. So that's something that is based wards one very rating. Thank you very much for that to. Let's say let's move on evening. Standard and actually widespread coverage yesterday have north korea launched missiles from a train for the first time. Yes so you. I mean this this comes on the back of jury of tests that the north koreans have ballooning over the past. Few weeks Less familiar with this object. This remarkable at because it's the it's the missing ten so the number of consecutive tests that we've seen North korea rounding.
Everything Everywhere Daily
"coleridge" Discussed on Everything Everywhere Daily
"Of obsolete words histories of words synonyms of words in poor examples and illustrations of words. What trench propose wasn't just a dictionary like the society had considered in the past. Trench was proposing writing the dictionary the most comprehensive dictionary of the english language. It wouldn't just be a list of words but of all of the words no longer in use and the history of all the words and where they came from. This would be a massive massive undertaking in eighteen fifty-eight the illogical society formerly called for the creation of a new dictionary which they called a new english dictionary on historical principles. First order of business was hiring someone to be the editor. Trench wasn't able to take on the assignment. As he was appointed the dean of westminster abbey. The job fell to herbert coleridge. Coleridge was only twenty nine. When he was appointed in eighteen sixty he created the outline in strategy for the entire project. He began the system to categorize the hundreds of thousands of quotes which would be required. Unfortunately in eighteen sixty one he died of tuberculosis at the age of thirty. The editor's job then fell to frederick james fern of all one of the founders of the illogical society fern of all was. An excellent scholar had great enthusiasm for the project and was a horrible administrator. All of the quotation cards and the system which coleridge had developed was put into total disarray for example all of the words beginning with the letters. Pa we're lost for over twelve years. Before they finally showed up in ireland his underlings couldn't stand working for him. He has sub editors for individual letters of the alphabet and the sub editors for a i j n o p and w all quit on them eventually. He stepped down in eighteen. Seventy eight and he handed the mess off to one james murray. The transfer was part of the deal for the dictionary to finally get a publisher twenty years after the project started. The oxford university press agreed to publish the massive project murray had previously applied for the job back.
Everything Everywhere Daily
Creating the Oxford English Dictionary
"London physiological logical. Society is the oldest organisation in great britain dedicated to the study of language formed in eighteen. Forty two one of their first objectives was to create a list of the deficiencies of the english language by eighteen. Eighty four they had hatched the idea of creating a new dictionary. That would solve the problems. They saw in current dictionaries. The process of whoever was incredibly slow. It took until eighteen fifty seven to establish a committee to create a list of unregistered words. These are words that weren't in current dictionaries or were poorly defined. If this had been the extent of what the illogical society had done. I wouldn't be doing an episode about this. The man who headed up. The committee was richard chenevix-trench. Trench was an interested in just coming up with a list of unregistered words. His ambition was much greater the report he produced with something else entirely. His report was titled on some deficiencies in our english dictionaries. It detailed all of the problems with current english language dictionaries in the nineteenth century. He noted problems. With the lack of coverage of obsolete words histories of words synonyms of words in poor examples and illustrations of words. What trench propose wasn't just a dictionary like the society had considered in the past. Trench was proposing writing the dictionary the most comprehensive dictionary of the english language. It wouldn't just be a list of words but of all of the words no longer in use and the history of all the words and where they came from. This would be a massive massive undertaking in eighteen fifty-eight the illogical society formerly called for the creation of a new dictionary which they called a new english dictionary on historical principles. First order of business was hiring someone to be the editor. Trench wasn't able to take on the assignment. As he was appointed the dean of westminster abbey. The job fell to herbert coleridge. Coleridge was only twenty nine. When he was appointed in eighteen sixty he created the outline in strategy for the entire project. He began the system to categorize the hundreds of thousands of quotes which would be required.
Cork's 96fm Opinion Line
"coleridge" Discussed on Cork's 96fm Opinion Line
"Cork's ninety-six fm straight away to the minister for public expenditure and reform. Mike mcgraff. good morning michael. Good morning and welcome to the opinion minister. You see it on the coleridge committee the subcommittee of cabinet so straightforward first question to you is d give its blessing to all of this plan so maybe just start play explaining how how it works..
The Lawfare Podcast
"coleridge" Discussed on The Lawfare Podcast
"If the republicans are for limiting social media moderation that must mean that social media moderation policies are amazing and facebook and twitter or the best and therefore we should do anything here and so. I'm not that optimistic especially because it kind of skated over this issue beginning the conversation on benching not that much that states can do here because of section two thirty because thirty preempts contrary state law and immunizes just for. I should say just for listeners. To who aren't familiar section to thirty of the communications decency act really. Do you think this a single listener of this podcast. These know section do that. I have like normies. Never be changed anyway. No i think it's a good point. Let's let's set some of the or at least one set out to thirty is relevant to this conversation. So i'll tell you this under under two minutes right so section. Two thirty has two important parts. The first part of this is the part that is most famous for immunizes platforms for the stuff their users post but the other thing that section two thirty does and this is generally not been very controversial though it has gotten much more controversial lately is an immunization his platforms for quote unquote good faith moderation of obscene content violent content and quote otherwise objectionable content. And so this has generally been understood to give platforms should base the infinite discretion as to what content not only to not only to keep up on their platforms but also to take down their platforms. They're interesting arguments that have been circulating lately about whether or not this provision just on the its tax should be read to include a content moderation based on political content but that is still the majority position that basically under this what's called the good samaritan immunity platforms have essentially discretion in deciding. What they they will will not host on their platforms and then in addition section to also says that states cannot pass laws that conflict with us. Right so sexy. Thirty explicitly premiums state law that is inconsistent with section. Two thirty right and large portions of the four a law are inconsistent with section two thirty and large portions of any law that tried to really meaningful e restrict content moderation policies would be in violation of section two thirty so that really leaves it up to the federal government if it wants to to limit content moderation by social media companies but for a variety of institutional and political factors. That is highly unlikely to happen. So what i think you'd have to find is a republican state that passes a law but that somehow avoids the problems that happened when this goes through. The trump is policy process. And i just not convinced that's going to happen anytime soon. Yeah i wanna reflect on that a little bit more. I mean. I guess my question is sort of given everything that you just set out about. How sort of hopelessly warped this. Entire discussion has become. Insofar as it's become a discussion that is on one side about. I would argue manufactured culture war and on the other side a lot of academics and researchers and podcasters Saying well actually you know. This is how it works. I worry that there's no good way. Basically for people who know what they're talking about to engage that the a lot of times in the trump administration where trump would do something that was unhinged in some way or another and commentators myself included sometimes would sort of raise their hands and say well actually you know under different circumstances and if this was done in a different way there might be a good argument for this but there these are different circumstances. The circumstances are terrible. So is there any way to engage. Here is the better thing to do. Just to kind of take a step back and not engage mean another way to phrase it as to ask whether we and everyone else having. This conversation are sort of getting played by in this case the florida state legislature and rhonda santa's by talking about the issues this law raises seriously and taking them seriously instead of just dismissing them out of hand. I think we're getting played by both sides. I think there's the danger getting played by both sides right. so there's a danger of getting played by florida. Republicans and taking this law as a good faith attempt which i get. I'm not convinced that it is but there's the other danger of getting played by social media companies in letting them get away with far more expensive first amendment arguments than they have any business being able to get away with you know. Look it's hard. It's hard to have a good discussion that any of these issues. Because of all these cultural political factors you identify but our job as podcasters people who write long technical block posts is to at least offer to those who are interested our view of what we think the best legal and policy answer is and i think that even if we're never going to have the opportunity to examine a good version of this law because the states won't pass it in the federal government. Pass it. I still think it's useful to clarify just to the we are all clear that there should be limits on the one hand for state attempts to limit content moderation policies but on the other hand that technology companies and internet platform should not be able to wrap themselves in the first amendment. Which is you know a famous and very charismatic. Part of the constitution shouldn't be able to wrap themselves in the first amendment anytime they say. Well we're doing content moderation. And so i think just being clear on that is useful for the debate as we evaluate other arguments that social media companies make even if. It's not likely that in the near future we're going to get kind of a better version of this law coming out of the states. The federal government. Yeah i definitely agree with played by both sides and against back to what i was saying about the two faces of of social media companies. Here that they are neutral and it suits and fully protected editors that you know deserve the full spectrum of first amendment protection when it when it suits them as well and as the judge says. Maybe there's something in the middle but we're still sort of struggling to tiki late and sort of think about how that looks actually in practice in the law. Because we don't have good tools for that. And i think this gets to sort of maybe a point sort of how. How do we conceptualize what they one of the arguments that you make in your piece. Is that the problem with the judge's dismissal of the idea that platforms on bottlenecks like cable companies in interna so one of the reasons why cable companies could be regulated in a way that other editors and other broadcasts couldn't was because of the scarcity argument that there's only so much space and so there's a government interest in being able to allocate that space in various ways. You say that the the judge ignored the actual bottleneck for social media platforms. It's not the ability for platforms to serve content which is indeed effectively infinite rather the ability of audiences consume it digital bandwidth is unlimited user attention and the news feed real estate dominates. Most certainly is not and i to push back on the idea that that's entirely new necessarily this attention scarcity argument which is definitely a a prominent one in the way that we can think about platforms. And and what's new here in general. There's an apocryphal story. That the loss person to have read every book existing in his day was the english poet. Samuel taylor coleridge who died in eighteen thousand four. You know a while ago but even in eighteen thirty four it would have been impossible to read every book the gutenberg press was invented around the the fourteen seventy and so you know they wouldn't be millions.
The Lawfare Podcast
"coleridge" Discussed on The Lawfare Podcast
"Think if the international community is to the constructive role. I think it is to and coleridge. Not only the current government on the traditional position to get together and reach compromise but also to integrate into the negotiations. For a better word. You might call senior society. The that's youth a emerge in the political system not orbs of concerted haitian Discussion concerted haitian negotiation. That hope for the would lead to some sort of real compromise between the different forces. That is extremely difficult in the context of hazy because the political actors dolled like each other. The only did like each other. But they see themselves as illegitimate if you ask people in position whether giuseppe is a legitimate prime minister and his government is legitimate they would say no is no way similar response on the bottle civilized society now civilized society as serious problems with the traditional position and when they merge they wanted to demarcate market themselves from the government in the traditional political opposition. So you have a very complicated. The political scene hazy but i think if there is to be hoped he said the crisis is so pronounced that it may compel actors really. Don't like each other to accept this solution under which all of them could col- parade and i've illegitimate outcome at the end to elections but that we'd need real Negotiation between all of those bodies and it may well be that you don't want the international community involve in except to tell them he has get together. We are going to intervene. Yabu window of to do it and you may have organizations that are outside the political system as it were up to lead the doors type of negotiations. Hey this is a very religious country so you could conceive of the catholic church could.
KQED Radio
"coleridge" Discussed on KQED Radio
"And new experiences. The way we were brought up musically is completely different than the way our teachers and their teachers were brought up. And so that's what um you know, I would like other Orchestras and other people to acknowledge and to see. You know, when it is our time to actually, you know, step up on the stage. I want them to see that. Hey, we have something to offer and it's completely different. Well, I'm back to your playlist for the summer. Here's petite Suite two concert, but I'm sure mall that by Samuel College Taylor This is a black Englishmen from the early 19 hundreds. We've been hearing a lot more of Samuel Coleridge Taylor's music on classical radio just this past year Number one. I just think it's an absolutely beautiful piece, but with I'm Coleridge Taylor, you know he's he's trying to combine the Afro style with Western classical music style. Kind of similar to how Brown's did you know, hung Hungarian music to classical music? That's kind of.
KHVH 830AM
"coleridge" Discussed on KHVH 830AM
"Perhaps commentating on today's top stories, but good morning. Good morning. So a lot, you know, Missile man, Let me jump in very quick. Uh, Missile mess three years ago. Where were you when you learned about all this? Remember? God think I was sleeping. At eight o'clock in the morning on this, okay? Yeah, you would it? Yeah, I got three. No, I do. Remember something of it. It was. Oh, yeah. You know, we was his home. Having coffee was Saturday morning, right? Yeah. Yeah. And Was busy that day, so I don't have time to worry about the missiles coming. And I'm like, Yeah. All right. Stop. It was like, Yeah, I just didn't believe it. You know, it probably was a bad thing. Maybe you should have taken something. But I was just like, uh, yeah, There's something about that because I really wasn't paying attention, right? You just heard something like, Wow. What? That doesn't make sense. That's about the time I heard about it. The 30 seconds was up already that we should have been bombed already. But so that's why I kind of was like I wasn't really paying attention. I heard about it and it was already passed on. So yeah. That's all. There you go. All right, and you are Fiery told everybody heaven rehashing you were sleeping. Yeah. I was sleeping. Getting ready for my son's birthday party. They're putting. Come on. Happy birthday. Is that Yeah. Thank you for that. All right, You said real estate market is strong. It's hot. Tell us how high how strong About 100 out of Ah! Very hot now very, you know, we were all kind of concerned what's gonna happen in January, and I think a lot of the people now have taken down the Christmas trees, the decorations and they're moving forward, and we've seen a lot of activity of new properties coming on the market. And actually, a lot of the properties are still selling as quickly so that's it's a really good sign. Interest rates are still super low. So of course that makes her perfect storm in our market. Very good. So what does this mean? All of this crap that's happening in our world. Is there any effect? The basic consumer of real estate. You know, I don't think so. There are always going to be that certain, um, group of people that really get upset over this stuff. It really worry about it. I think the sky is falling. And they're not going to get involved in stock market or real estate market or certain investments because I think the end of the world is coming. And then there's others that have been through a few of these cycles and I was talking to Scotty before came in here and we forget what even happened a year ago. You know, we forget what happened two years ago, so in in the election cycles, if we look what happened in the past four years, eight years, 12 years, there was always some big controversy. And it's just as you're I think older into the process, you kind of look at it like Yeah, we'll get through this, but I'm gonna still keep purchasing when the stock market crashed When the real estate market crash there's all these big events. But they're so there's a certain majority. That's just going to really, really worry. It doesn't not the Sun's group that just says it. Let's just move forward. If the world ends tomorrow, they'll have to pay off the 30 year mortgage. So I think there's a lot of that, and we're seeing a lot of that. I think For the past four years. It's been very negative, negative negative anyway, and people have been spent still moving forward, so I think we're seeing a lot of that in our inventory is still so low, so for that population that is worried and not in the market. That's okay because there are more people that are still in the market and want to purchase and want to move on. And there's just not enough inventory, So I think that's kind of how I sum up what I see so far. What about major developments coming on the market? I know that Coleridge was due. Uh, earlier in 2020. Actually being they did they actually had some big? It's such a slow roll out. Yeah, and I don't know if that is because you know again. I'm not involved with that development part of knowing the inside scoops, but I think a lot of it has to do with you. I don't I don't. I believe it's not because of financing and getting things going and a lack of buyers buying. There's a definite demand for it. So I can't I don't have an answer why it is rolling out slower. I really don't believe it's because of permits stuff because that's what took so long for to get it going toe where it's at now, so I don't have an answer for that. And I would almost guarantee that it's not because of lack of interest of buyer's either so I can't give you an answer. That's why me. I mean, there's just no, it doesn't make any sense. What's going off whole appealing is it will appeal this same. It's I don't know why it's in this zone of just floating and, you know, I know they're moving forward with it. I don't know if it's maybe I, because maybe because of the rail is like a construction worker. I don't I don't know what the answer is. It doesn't make sense. They worked so hard to get it to the point. Finally get to cells and where it's at. And they're just in a holding pattern. I did don't understand. I'm just curious because every time we talk, it's inventory inventory. Let's get these things built. Let's get him up and running, and that's referred to there's no reason we know there's no lack of People that don't want their buyers out there. They want these projects. They ready and with the interest rates the way they are now it's a no brainer. Think right, but that Zoro Axum Because whether or not is, let's just take regulation both your industry and contracting. Damn government. Get the hell out of the way! Just do your basic job and facilitate Coleridge has been percolating for 10 to 10 year squirts coming up 15 years for that..
Monocle 24: The Briefing
How the Syria deal between Turkey and Russia will work
"And welcome to today's edition of the briefing with me Andrew Muller it is difficult to conjure a grammar prospect than having in your future decided on an agreement between Turkish President Richard Type One and Russian President Vladimir Putin such however is exactly the outlook facing the key words in the area of northern Syria they had come to Coleridge Uva and who until very recently considered themselves rock-solid allies off and perhaps therefore protected by the United States Turkey and Russia have agreed to what they call oversee what they call a withdrawal of Kurdish forces the Kurds IC- matters differently I'm joined by Paul Rogers a professor of peace studies at Bradford University who has written extensively on the war in Syria and Hannah Lucinda Smith Istanbul respondent for the Times how in Istanbul first of all what do we know about how Russia and Turkey expect this deal to work because on the face of it it would seem to require an amount of cooperation from the Kurds good morning well yeah I think the first thing that we should say about the deal that was struck in Saudi last night this is hugely more details than either of the deals struck between Turkey and the US previously on the safe zone finds exactly where the safe zone is going to be how exactly it's going to be patrolled in court Rodney as you say most of those areas is going to be cleared of Kurdish fighters guide to be patrolled either by acids and Russian forces or also with Turkish forces as well joint patrols now of course this completely relies on on the Kurds agreeing to this agreeing to withdraw from his areas but quite frankly they don't really have much other choices they turned to ask that assu weeks ago when Turkey I launches assault there was a military memorandum of understanding signed between the two sides that point and to be honest they really hunger and yet the cause to play it's difficult see how they have any leeway to oppose this agreement just to follow that up is clear then at least on the in terms of this agreement where they intend or expect the Kurds to go now all we know is that they're going to be goes out of an area generally ten kilometers along the border apart from certain towns also from the towns of manage and tell Ra fats to the west of the area and everyone is going to be pulled back thirty clumps away from that border now obviously that's a small sex Shen in in kind of pure land mass terms of what the the Kurdish dominated forces controlled in Syria but it does also include almost all of their main towns this is the commish that factor capital falls outside of this arrangement it's unclear exactly in the long term how that's going to be trolled. The moment is a mixture of Kurdish regime fighters but all the other towns on the border that's where the huge bulk of the population in Syria Lebanon redan clear at that at this point where if they choose lead times they civilians are going to go Bring Paul Rogers in at this point Paul how do you expect this to play out because it would appear that militarily at least the the military wing of the Syrian democratic forces the white PG they don't really have any options Jackie and Russia both huge well-equipped military's the Kurds have very little heavy weaponry they certainly don't have an air force will they make any attempt at all do you imagine to defend what they have I think is unlikely that they will do any defense in the conventional sense in the slightly longer term may be the equivalent of of Salter Grid warfare but in the short term degree very much that they're in a very weak position I think the point that hunters was making very significant in terms of the out of control the techs are prepared to ensure if not control themselves with a mixture of Syrian and Russian forces so also saying that Turkey really like is to be able to control the area right across the border Syria from the the whole sort of length of the border winches many hundreds Columbus the area that they do control in the West because of their own associates is quite big what remains is something like four hundred twenty kilometers this particular agreement appears to cover about one hundred and twenty kilometers Ms Hammet says this is an area where the Kurds each populations particularly concentrated for the still nearly something like two thirds of the total area which isn't under this agreement we simply don't know what's going to happen there but in direct answer to your question I think it is unelected the that's what offer any major resistance to this at least in the short term but just to follow that up poll should we therefore assume that agreement that was struck between the code and the Syrian regime for all that was ever worth is now formerly a dead letter it seems to be yes I mean if you look at this in a wider sense trump's decision to Morris withdraw the troops and Syria although they've not been large they've been pretty significant we tend to forget an addition to these troops what nobody talks about in polite circles is the presence of question number special forces including it suspected special forces from Britain and France that have involved in trying to prevent escape of the Isis fighters they haven't been very successful in that at present because there are so many isis fighters in some of the detention camps but from the Russian perspective that this is really very good for them I mean their overall plan is to have as much influence a series they can for minimum cost on the way they played the air war was very rough very tough but not huge costly a while they now seeing is the will be actually be some Russian forces even quite small a nominal in these zones as part of the sort of protection patrols which means that they will be extending their influence geographically very little costing sells out of that expect it is pretty Kaputin and one would say that in that respect is also good for the United States how does it look like this is playing the one domestically is is it proving popular with Turks generally this idea that I and his pitches basically two fold that he has cleared what he described observe terrorist menace from away from Turkey's borders and he has now opened up spicing which Turkey can repatriate some of the millions of Syrians who have fled into the country since two thousand eleven sure I think it's very important burdwan he manages to to spin every get series of victory at home you know I think we shouldn't forget that a major part of his reason for launching this operation in the first place was to kind of Rowson domestic supporting tools to deflect attention away from so many other things that have been plaguing in this year the economy's going terribly he suffered major losses in local elections at this yes now taking the Turkish front pages this morning and you know should remind you the only sort of the Turkish media is controlled by one and his allies the reaction to the deal last night is a lot more kinds of restraints than was the reaction to the deal with Mike Pence last Thursday after that deal the headlines thank took his one and Turkish victory now the much more restrained they're saying the Terry corridor has been committed to history so there's a lot more restrained language I think it's almost certain that presentation on even though he's got nowhere near what he was setting out to get when he first started talking about launching this unilateral campaign a few weeks ago you know he was talking about taking a stretch of border four hundred forty kilometers long he's got far less than that but I mean certainly he's going to into a victory he's going to say the state of Rosia varies name more the Thai have got rid the terror threat from our border and this is another victory for me and my policies all the the Syrian conflict which is now approaching the end of its first decade has proved ceaselessly in depressingly inventive in finding ways to perpetuate itself but bearing that in mind do we at least see some outline of what a final settlement might look like because isn't this Turkey coming around ever for the to the idea that Bashar Al Assad has basically one that he will remain president of Syria I think that's true a and I would agree generally that this is being a good period for a set himself and his regime not least because the Kurds are having to accept that he can be a kind of counter to the increase Turkish influence the one big question remains though is what this does to the other kinds of militia groups are not much talk about the ones in North West Syria in Italy province but more the Isis elements and here there is a lot happening although against very difficult piece out precisely what the Americans of taken about a thousand of their troops from Syria into western Iraq but one report from the Pentagon this morning suggested this is a temporary there's thousand we'll be withdrawn entirely so it makes it to the American seem to be persisting in trump's wished rashly with morton withdrawal more fully than it is his phone one can say extremely good news in perhaps the the group that may benefit most is actually isis itself who far from going away I'll still there regenerating in Syria and in Iraq and the connection here is they still had many hundreds property several thousands of their toughest paramilitaries in detention one sort or another in the in the powder Syria those are really coming out back into circulation it's very similar to what happened in two thousand twelve thirteen with the so-called operation breaking the walls when what was the remnants of the old HQ I in Iraq managed to break out many that toughest paramilitaries from Iraqi prisons now it's not so much breaking out now because these went so well protected this time but it's the same kind of thing playing at a smaller scale and it's gone who almost certainly boost isis overall now that has an impact in Iraq or serious very difficult to tell but that's the one unknown in this current situation ought to come back to you finally a major part of President Prospectus that the the P. G. R. A. Anti-kurdish terrorist organization has been the alleged relationship with the Peak Aka the Turkey the Kurdish rather organization which has been waging war against Turkey for decades we'll doin be anticipating or nervous about any potential response to this deal from the PKK well I think the listening to say as you know the the the links between the what PG and the and the PK care real I mean when I first started reporting on the war PG in late two thousand thirteen you know well before they had even heard much indefinitely before before they go US backing I mean they were very very open about the fact Turkey ideologically that clearly linked to the to the PK K.. And you know I think everyone probably should be very worried about retaliation from the okay inside Turkey a ceasefire broke down in the summer of two thousand fifteen since then we've seen really wide scale conflicts across southeastern Turkey happening often in the city centers in many cities enters destroyed by fighting between Turkish security for some pick the
KC O'Dea Show
Pope Francis condemns clerical sexual abuse but offers no new solutions
"Signal. Pope Francis, strongly condemned sexual abuse, but offered no specific solutions. Disappointing clergy and lay people who had a breakthrough at a global summit to address the crisis in the Catholic church in his widely anticipated speech yesterday. The pope said the church's response should avoid defensiveness that fails to confront the causes and effects of these grave crimes. His message was echoed by Mark Benedict. Coleridge archbishop of Brisbane, we will do all we can to bring Justice and healing to survivors of abuse. We will listen to them believe them walk with them compresses called abuse involving children a