Comments on: Life on the Horizontal – Wednesday http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/3180.html Some Chicago Boyz know each other from student days at the University of Chicago. Others are Chicago boys in spirit. The blog name is also intended as a good-humored gesture of admiration for distinguished Chicago boys including those pictured above. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:17:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: decorabilia http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/3180.html/comment-page-1#comment-12604 decorabilia Thu, 02 Jun 2005 01:46:47 +0000 http://www390.pair.com/chicagob/blog/003180.php#comment-12604 <strong>smarter than I #5: Deep Throat edition</strong> Your posting has been included in the most recent "Smarter than I" carnival. smarter than I #5: Deep Throat edition

Your posting has been included in the most recent “Smarter than I” carnival.

]]> By: Ginny http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/3180.html/comment-page-1#comment-12603 Ginny Wed, 25 May 2005 15:01:54 +0000 http://www390.pair.com/chicagob/blog/003180.php#comment-12603 David Foster: Yes, Thoreau can be irritating, but he writes well. He has the same lack of enthusiasm for the messy human as the Rothko Chapel, but maybe we don't want to go there again. Optimism about technology accepts human noise, that unpredictability of its energy when multiplied by that technology. The subjective, the I in the center, that Thoreau got down. Dave Schuler, Good point. But these poets are pretty much in the running for dead white guy honors too. An aside: my husband is doing a guest editorship and requesting papers on Arnold; so far no one from the UK has submitted, even though inquiries have come in from (in addition to the US) China & India. David Foster: Yes, Thoreau can be irritating, but he writes well. He has the same lack of enthusiasm for the messy human as the Rothko Chapel, but maybe we don’t want to go there again. Optimism about technology accepts human noise, that unpredictability of its energy when multiplied by that technology. The subjective, the I in the center, that Thoreau got down.

Dave Schuler, Good point. But these poets are pretty much in the running for dead white guy honors too. An aside: my husband is doing a guest editorship and requesting papers on Arnold; so far no one from the UK has submitted, even though inquiries have come in from (in addition to the US) China & India.

]]> By: David Foster http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/3180.html/comment-page-1#comment-12602 David Foster Wed, 25 May 2005 13:30:26 +0000 http://www390.pair.com/chicagob/blog/003180.php#comment-12602 Thoreau also said, famously: "We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate." The Internet is, of course, the direct descendent of telegraphy...and interactions such as those mentioned by Ginny prove that Throeau was wrong. Thoreau also said, famously: “We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.”

The Internet is, of course, the direct descendent of telegraphy…and interactions such as those mentioned by Ginny prove that Throeau was wrong.

]]> By: Dave Schuler http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/3180.html/comment-page-1#comment-12601 Dave Schuler Wed, 25 May 2005 13:21:31 +0000 http://www390.pair.com/chicagob/blog/003180.php#comment-12601 I think Wretchard's a fan of Victorian poetry, generally. He and I have traded Tennyson and Macauley quotes, for example. I think Wretchard’s a fan of Victorian poetry, generally. He and I have traded Tennyson and Macauley quotes, for example.

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