modest alex will not appreciate this post, but i post it all the same.

http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=30579

posted by Tae-Yeoun Keum   [10:20 PM]

10/22/05 Princeton Ends Nine-Year Drought Against Harvard, 27-24 Princeton's Jay McCareins returned a kickoff 93 yards for a touchdown just seconds after Harvard had taken a fourth-quarter lead, to lead the Tigers to a 27-24 win against the Crimson Saturday afternoon in front of 12,023 at Harvard Stadium. The loss for Harvard snapped a nine-game series winning streak against Princeton, which had not defeated the Crimson since Oct. 21, 1995. Harvard scored four times in the game, but saw Princeton answer on the ensuing drive each time.

posted by Matthew Schmitz   [9:39 AM]

I think you are both right in arguing that grammar didn't "give rise to mythology," and I didn't quite mean to imply that, but what I was reaching for was that Grammar made personified mythologies of natural forces necessary. You are right that Altaic languages like Korean and Japanese and Turkish don't require a subject for all of the verbs (maybe we should enlist a linguistics major's opinions to further this discussion) but it also seems that their mythologies are more often centered around extraordinary people. I mean, Japanese has plenty of spirit figures and gods, but none of these is the only reason that a phenomenon happens its more of a property that the spiritual figure is able to use. ...to be honest, I know very little about Turkish at all so here, let me put my foot in my mouth...

mmmm ;)

I can't think of a way for culture to develop without mythology, though it seems like grammar is something that even archaic homo and even earlier relatives would have some capacity in.

What do you all think is the relationship between physical violence, dualistic philosophies, and physical pain? It seems like dualism is easier to accept if things hurt, and harmony is easier to believe in if things don't, because whenever you're hurt it always feels like some external agent is responsible for the action which your pain metaphorically feels like:

"It's hurting me"
"It burns (me/my finger/ect)"
"my arm hurts, it's stabbing right here"

Seems like whenever we physically feel something, "I" becomes separate from the pain, which is equally separate from the imagined (and sometimes actual) agent of the pain.

rock on everyone.

posted by Adrian   [7:42 AM]

inspiration, the sublime, dreams, the descent, flow, the aftermath. so many themes that came up over tasp, all in the paragraph below:

Ayrs was now slumped a la a Pre-Raphaelite oil painting entitled Behold the Sated Muse Discards Her Puppet. Birdsong foamed in the hour-before-dawn garden. Thought about J.'s curves in bed, just a few yards away, even felt a dangerous throb of impatience for her. V.A. [Ayrs] was unsure of himself for once. "I dreamt of a ... nightmarish cafe, brilliantly lit, but underground, with no way out. I'd been dead a long, long time. The waitresses all had the same face. The food was soap, the only drink was cups of lather. The music in the cafe was" - he wagged an exhausted finger at the MS - "this."

- my current bible
(i nearly wept when i read it.)

(adrian: korean and japanese syntax allow for the subject of a sentence to be ommitted, but we have myths all the same. i like your proposal, but i agree with matt, gramamr itself can't cause mythology to happen, rather they seem correlated in that both mythology and grammatical structures that demand a subject seem to answer the question of who. grammar merely gives form to the answer, and leaves a vacuum of further questions when the specific answer can't be found.

i feel like vico would have plenty to say about this. where are our new science readers?)

posted by Tae-Yeoun Keum   [10:30 AM]

So Adrian, that seems right to me. Only I doubt that such constructions were the primary causes of people originating myths. Is it assumed that grammar predated mythology, or no? I wonder which was the cause.

posted by Matthew Schmitz   [3:57 PM]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALEX Y!

sorry i'm late. the other alex had to remind me.

posted by Tae-Yeoun Keum   [4:11 PM]

So an interesting topic was brought up in my anthropology class, and I'd like to dangle it like a hooked worm before you;

Indo-european languages make for phrases like "it's raining" where it's implies that there's something doing the raining other than the action of raining. Nietzche (at some point) talks about how it is wrong for us to seperate the Lightening from the flash. ...yada yada. Do you think that this sort of gramatical structure leads to mythology--that is to comming up with an answer about 'what is doing the natural action' --?-


By the way.
Today, New Haven, Rain. Cloud, Sky, some cold.

-feel good-

posted by Adrian   [11:32 AM]

in the middle of studying for my math midterm last night i must have made the most original, if not creative, mistake i've made in a while, and i make lots of really dumb mistakes. i couldn't figure out a derangement problem, so i decided to call a math major i know named Adam. the conversation went something like this:

Tae-Yeoun: Adam? Hi! It's Tae-Yeoun!
Adam: Tae-Yeoun! How are you?!
Tae-Yeoun: Pretty miserable, actually. I need help with a math problem. Are you busy now?
Adam: No, not at all. Uh... what's the problem?

[five minutes (at least) of Tae-Yeoun trying to explain the problem and Adam making sure the problem doesn't give any more information]

Adam: I don't see it, sorry. Maybe if you call Eunice or Bryan they might be more helpful.
Tae-Yeoun: Who?
Adam: Eunice Yang and Bryan Lee?
Tae-Yeoun: How do you know Eunice and Bryan?
Adam: Hello? Is this Tae-Yeoun?
Tae-Yeoun: Yeah, is this Adam?

[big *oh* moment]

Adam, you're the best.

posted by Tae-Yeoun Keum   [11:41 AM]

Contributing to the creativity pool--
Adrian sent me this gorgeous sketch and I insisted on posting it.



Also, Alex B. has been radiating creativity all weekend being Caligula in a wonderful, wonderful production of, well, Caligula, and if only I could post the entire thing on the blog I would.

posted by Tae-Yeoun Keum   [8:18 PM]

It is a perpetualy act of creation to believe in a thing such as a state or a group. It exits only in thought and only while being thought of, and as we are thinking, we create each other and our common experience.

ah, cell phones-


<--Copadichromis trimaculatus

posted by Adrian   [9:38 PM]

I too check the blog daily, with frequent disappointment. If I understand Olga, we are to post some of our 'creations'. I thought that was a great idea, but no one's done it yet. Well, here are a few cinquains I wrote recently. It is only the combined force of Olga's urging and the fact that one of the poems is related to TASP that brings me to this. So, don't let me be the only one.

Therefore, Be it Resolved

Whereas
Mr. Delay
did no such thing, I move
the motion be tabled, and you,
seated.

Old English

What if
the language slowed,
wobbled, and keeled over,
like a bike on a road bland as
my verse?

Sentiments of the Beautiful Greek

Alpha.
My knuckles have
never sweated before.
God! Who sweats her knuckles?
Not me.

Delta.
He saw me in
the house of ADPi,
I, needle-thin, my sisters with hair
like hay.

Pi--yeah,
like the number.
I can count; but you can't
have this again, hun. 'Cause we don't
repeat.

posted by Matthew Schmitz   [6:30 PM]

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