Chaucer takes a comic look at the ernest game of life in how Canterbury Tales. We, as humans, decide that we will take the pilgrimage of life to its ultimate conclusion. We decide to impose that order on our ostensibly quixotic existences — we decide to play the game.
Archive | April, 1997
Asmov’s “Reason”
They tried to control QT-1 even before it was born. Man’s newest robot is the subject of Asimov’s 1941 short story “Reason.”
Vico’s Homer
Vico, in his imaginative search for the true Homer, uses the language of reason combined with creative speculation and inductive hypothesizing. Homer, for Vico, is a metaphor for the citizens of ancient Greece. He did not exist as a man, but as a much more powerful entity who lived in the cultural consciousness of the entire nation. Homer himself became a myth — a integral myth for the emergence of Greek polity, poetry, and philosophy.
