tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-124309396371161776.post219450360022980208..comments2023-10-29T09:55:46.373+00:00Comments on BETWIXT: Europe: Intellectual Life Before Dan Brown: OfficialRobin Hunthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06731689471696298055noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-124309396371161776.post-76883613845240898502007-05-30T08:30:00.000+01:002007-05-30T08:30:00.000+01:00Ah, embraces the bottomless memory stick. This mor...Ah, embraces the bottomless memory stick. This morning when my 27 Google Alerts hit the in-box embrace was not the word I had in mind. I've been writing about the necessity to forget, and edit, but there is the other controlling fear that one has missed too much. In Paris, perhaps as with all big cities, I feel I've always been around the wrong corner.Robin Hunthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06731689471696298055noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-124309396371161776.post-82791899214979657202007-05-29T20:11:00.000+01:002007-05-29T20:11:00.000+01:00Robin, some gnostic advice on the question of sens...Robin, some gnostic advice on the question of sensory overload, from the Nag Hamadi codices:<BR/><B>'We have but one wish; we would be preserved in knowledge [γνωσις].<BR/>We seek but one protection: that we do not stumble in this kind of life'</B><BR/>(from the Prayer of Thanksgiving, NHC VI 7, 64,31-65,2; NHS Vol XI, 1979, 385).<BR/>The modern gnostic <I>embraces</I> the bottomless memory stick,<BR/>WMAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com