We go back briefly to the intimations ode and to Montaigne's that philosophy is learning how to die -- intimations of mortality.   All philosophy is.  Then we knock around The Prelude -- recumbent o'er the surface of past time, the two consciousnesses, and some of the boat-stealing scene, with a digression on metaphor: sex as a vehicle in that scene about vehicles.

We go back briefly to the intimations ode and to Montaigne's that philosophy is learning how to die -- intimations of mortality. All philosophy is. Then we knock around The Prelude -- recumbent o'er the surface of past time, the two consciousnesses, and some of the boat-stealing scene, with a digression on metaphor: sex as a vehicle in that scene about vehicles.

We go back briefly to the intimations ode and to Montaigne's that philosophy is learning how to die -- intimations of&nbsp;mortality.&nbsp; &nbsp;All philosophy is.&nbsp; Then we knock around&nbsp;The Prelude -- recumbent o'er the surface of past time, the two consciousnesses, and some of the boat-stealing scene, with a digression on metaphor: sex as a vehicle in that scene about vehicles.

Early Romantics XIX Monday 4-1-19 Bouncing around the Prelude

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