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The Invention of Love
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bookshelves: genre-drama, subject-queer, academia-honors-thesis, rating-five-stars, 1975-1999, genre-academic-and-campus-fiction, location-missing-personal-copy
Jun 13, 2007
bookshelves: genre-drama, subject-queer, academia-honors-thesis, rating-five-stars, 1975-1999, genre-academic-and-campus-fiction, location-missing-personal-copy
Basically, let us summarize my rhapsodizing thus: I want Tom Stoppard to write my life.
HOUSMAN: Scholarship... [is] where we're nearest to our humanness. Useless knowledge for its own sake. Useful knowledge is good, too, but it's for the faint-hearted, an elaboration of the real thing, which is only to shine some light, it doesn't matter where on what, it's the light itself, against the darkness, it's what's left of God's purpose when you take away God. It doesn't mean I don't care about the poetry. I do. Diffugere nives goes through me like a spear.... The recovery of ancient texts is the highest task of all - Erasmus, bless him. It is work to be done. Posterity has a brisk way with manuscripts: scholarship is a small redress against the vast unreason of what is taken from us - it's not just the worthless that perish, Jesus doesn't save.
HOUSMAN: Scholarship... [is] where we're nearest to our humanness. Useless knowledge for its own sake. Useful knowledge is good, too, but it's for the faint-hearted, an elaboration of the real thing, which is only to shine some light, it doesn't matter where on what, it's the light itself, against the darkness, it's what's left of God's purpose when you take away God. It doesn't mean I don't care about the poetry. I do. Diffugere nives goes through me like a spear.... The recovery of ancient texts is the highest task of all - Erasmus, bless him. It is work to be done. Posterity has a brisk way with manuscripts: scholarship is a small redress against the vast unreason of what is taken from us - it's not just the worthless that perish, Jesus doesn't save.
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“It's where we're nearest to our humanness. Useless knowledge for its own sake. Useful knowledge is good, too, but it's for the faint-hearted, an elaboration of the real thing, which is only to shine some light, it doesn't matter where on what, it's the light itself, against the darkness, it's what's left of God's purpose when you take away God.”
― The Invention of Love
― The Invention of Love
Reading Progress
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June 13, 2007
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June 13, 2007
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genre-drama
June 13, 2007
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subject-queer
June 26, 2007
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academia-honors-thesis
May 18, 2011
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rating-five-stars
May 5, 2012
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1975-1999
May 13, 2012
– Shelved as:
genre-academic-and-campus-fiction
July 2, 2017
– Shelved as:
location-missing-personal-copy
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Jun 12, 2008 11:52AM
Yes. Just yes.
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