“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Bill Benzon Reads Latour

One of his characteristically thoughtful and lively posts.

He also sent me this video on Coleridge's Kubla Khan. It's a great translation!

1 comment:

Bill Benzon said...

I've been looking around, Tim, and there are a zillion "Kubla Khan" videos out there, some quite good. All lot of them seem to be high school lit projects. Didn't see any identified as college lit projects. Maybe I wasn't looking, didn't happen to see any, or could it be the college teachers are too stoopid to assign fun projects like this? I don't know, but it's heartening to see all those cool videos.