Morris, William : (1834-96), English designer, craftsman, poet, & socialist; he revolutionized Victorian taste.
... years and years ago and kept quiet. William Morris must have known that view times without number there. For when he was in Paris for a fairly long stay he began to go every day to the Eiffel Tower and sit from morning to evening, perched high there. At last, after a month of daily visit, a friend said to him: "William, what makes you so fond of the Eiffel Tower?" Morris replied: "Fond? The blasted thing... fire-arms." This editor's comment satirises the mistake people often commit of thinking that togetherness always shows or breeds fondness. Appearances can be quite deceptive. I remember the case of William Morris and the Eiffel Tower. I'll come to it shortly. You must have seen a picture of the Eiffel Tower. It is an all-iron structure rising 1000 feet in the air from the midst of Paris. I have actually... eyes in every nook and corner of Paris. I felt sick of it. So I have gone every day to the only place from which I can't see the monstrosity piercing into God's blue!" The constant togetherness of Morris and the masterpiece of Monsieur Eiffel was no proof of attachment. Of course, I am not referring to our case of being together every Wednesday and Friday. I am just psychologically philosophising on ...
... g is not calligraphy. Calligraphy is artistic handwriting. Haven't you heard of illuminated manuscripts? PURANI: Chinese and Arabic books are very artistic, with beautiful borders. It seems William Morris tried to produce Homer's epics like that. SRI AUROBINDO: The Roman script is too utilitarian to produce a good effect. In England they are trying oriental calligraphy now. EVENING As often ...
... founded on the Anglo Saxon language. Sri Aurobindo : Not at all. The great Shakespeare and poets from Milton to Shelley did not write, consciously in the Anglo Saxon language – except William Morris, who used Anglo Saxon words. They have followed Latin and Greek vocabulary. And the idea of writing for the mass is a stupid idea. Poetry was never written for the mass. It is only a minority that ...
... Steven: The Prehistory of the Mind , Phoenix, 2003 Monod, Jaques: Le hasard et la nécessité , Éditions du Seuil, 1970 Morange, Michel: Les secrets du vivant , Éditions la Découverte, 2005 Morris, Desmond: The Human Zoo , Dell Publishing Co., 1969 — The Naked Ape , Corgi Books, 1967 Noble, Denis: The Music of Life , Oxford University Press, 2006 O’Leary, Denyse: By Design or by... — The Selfish Gene , Oxford University Press (Indian edition), 1989 — Unweaving the Rainbow , Penguin Books, 1998 Delumeau, Jean (ed.): Le savant et la foi , Flammarion, 1989 Dembski, William A. (ed.): Uncommon Dissent , ISI Books, 2004 Dennett, Daniel C.: Breaking the Spell , Allen Lane, 2006 — Darwin’s Dangerous Idea , Penguin Books, 1996 Denton, Michael: Evolution – A Theory ...
... story but with episodes. PURANI: It is a pity Tagore has not written an epic. SRI AUROBINDO: Tagore? He has not the epic mind. But he has written some very fine narrative poems. A few of William Morris' narratives are also very fine—his Sigurd ihe Volsung and Earthly Paradise, especially the latter. I read them a number of times in my early days. There is a tendency to belittle him, because he ...
... can be quite deceptive - the case of William Morris and the Eiffel Tower: "William Morris, when he was in Paris for a fairly long stay, began to go everyday to the Eiffel Tower and sit from morning to evening, perched high there. At last, after a month of his daily visit, a friend said to him: 'William, what makes you so fond of the Eiffel Tower?' Morris replied: 'Fond? The blasted thing is so... corner of Paris. I felt sick of it. So I have gone every day to the only place from which I can't see the monstrosity piercing into God's blue!' 78 So we see that the constant togetherness of Morris and the masterpiece of Monsieur Eiffel was no proof of the poet-painter's attachment! 8. Ingenious comparison: To make ingenious metaphors demands both originality and training. Here are... 'lemon'. 5.Ambiguity: An ambiguity is the use of a word or phrase having two meanings. This provides numerous jokes, whether accidentally made or deliberately contrived. Example: Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836-1911) may be regarded as the most notable wit of his generation. His neat retorts and happy sayings earned him a name. One day, after a dinner party, Gilbert was standing ...
... voluminous." 15 (10) From Oscar Wilde (1856-1900): (i) Sir Lewis Morris, the author of "The Epic of Hades", was complaining to Oscar Wilde of what he regarded as studied neglect of his claims when possible successors to the Laureateship were being discussed after Tennyson's death. Page 301 Said Morris: "It is a complete conspiracy of silence against me - a conspiracy of silence... exclaimed, "And for hell, too." "Certainly, my friend," came Lloyd George's unexpected retort, "I always like to hear a man standing up for his country." 12 (7) From William S. Gilbert: At one big gathering Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836-1931) had to take down to dinner a somewhat pretentious lady of the newly rich who, knowing nothing of music, posed as one of its patrons. Page ...
... in most cases meant neo-Darwinism, rested on purely scientific grounds and is generally respected, although it came as a shock after the triumphalist Darwinian wave in the 1950s and 1960s, Desmond Morris’ Naked Ape and Jacques Monod’s Chance and Necessity. “I have tried to show why I believe that the problems [of ‘Darwinism’] are too serious and too intractable to offer any hope of resolution in... inference is quantitative and depends on the evidence; the more the parts, and the more intricate and sophisticated the function, the stronger is our conclusion of design.” Here, Behe rightly mentions William Paley’s old argument that if an artificial object, e.g. a pocket watch (nowadays we would say a chronometer), is found somewhere in nature, the conclusion must be that the watch has been designed by... through ‘the eyes of faith’, design theorists believe that scientific evidence actually points to intelligent design – that intelligent design is, in their words, ‘empirically detectable’.” 24 As William Dembski, mathematician and philosopher, is quoted to have put it: “Intelligent Design is not creationism and it is not naturalism [i.e. materialism]: Nor is it a compromise or synthesis of these positions ...
... you too belonged to that same England and shared in the soulful aestheticism which came to what 1 may call flaming flower in the vision and work of the two Rossettis as well as Walter Pater, William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones. * I feel rather worried about the condition of your eyes. I can't quite make out what exactly is wrong. It seems sometimes Page 30 you can read ...
... Alcock), The Evolution of Behaviour (Jerram Brown), Human Ethology (Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt) – all, fully or in part, about the behaviour of the human animal as fashioned by evolution. Desmond Morris had shocked the world with the The Naked Ape in 1967; Richard Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene will closely follow Wilson’s central opus in 1976, and Sociobiology: The Whisperings Within , by David Barash... unrivaled in the annals of twentieth-century biology.” Wilson, the student of bees, ants and wasps in vivo , resisted the abstract methods of the mathematicians. Till he read a seminal article by William Hamilton on kin selection: “The Genetical Evolution of Social Behaviour.” This was the conversion which would lead to his theory of sociobiology. “I wanted to create a showcase for sociobiology using... Wilson calls him “Darwin’s most ardent representative on Earth.” 22 Major Darwinian elements in Dawkins’ thinking are, firstly, his stance against eighteenth century theological naturalism, of which William Paley had become the figurehead, 23 and which is the central theme of The Blind Watchmaker . Secondly, Dawkins sticks stubbornly to the theory of gradualism as a fundamental mechanism of evolution; ...
... Tennyson. Masefields' poems are Georgian rhetoric. Disciple : Do you remember Volsung Saga by William Morris? Sri Aurobindo : It is a very good poem; it is an exercise in Epic. I remember his Earthly Paradise which is exceedingly fine. There is a tendency to run down Morris, because he derived his inspiration from the Middle Ages as the Victorian age did not give him any subject ...
... from the monkeys and consequently the humans from the primates. The human became nothing but an animal, an evolved “naked ape” living in a society which was a “human zoo” (titles of books by Desmond Morris). The human media repeat day by day how animal-like humans are, and those animalized humans, on an average, seem to care little about it. If scientists say so, it must be true. Besides, who still... thermodynamics … We face a continuous downward spiral of no return.” Entropy is unforgiving. “Many scientists look worried these days … To become even a guarded optimist, you have to think hard.” 17 (William Calvin) However, the consequences of the second law are valid and verifiable only in case of the evolution of a system that is energetically isolated, in other words: closed. Biological systems ...
... metre, he has every chance, supposing him poetically empowered, of creating a translation which shall not only be classical, but shall be the translation. Wilful choice of metre is always fatal. William Morris' Homeric translation failed hopelessly partly because of his affected "Anglosaxon" diction, but still more because he chose to apply a metre good enough possibly for the Volsungasaga to the rendering ...
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