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L'Allegro is a pastoral poem by John Milton published in his 1645 Poems. L'Allegro (which means "the happy man" in Italian) has from its first appearance been paired with the contrasting pastoral poem, Il Penseroso ("the melancholy man"), which depicts a similar day spent in contemplation and thought.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Allegro

Life Review

In the 1790, British naval officer Francis Beaufort nearly drowned and reported experiencing a life review. In 1847, a letter by Beaufort recalling the incident was published in the autobiography of Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet. Wrote Beaufort:

"Thought rose after thought with a rapidity of succession that is not only indescribable, but probably inconceivable, by any one who has not been in a similar situation. The course of those thoughts I can even now in a great measure retrace... our last cruise – a former voyage, and shipwreck – my school – the progress I had made there, and the time I misspent – and even all my boyish pursuits and adventures. Thus travelling backwards, every past incident of my life seemed to glance across my recollection in retrograde succession; not, however, in mere outline, as here stated, but the picture filled up with every minute and collateral feature.

In short, the whole period of my existence seemed to be placed before me in a kind of panoramic review, and each act of it seemed to be accompanied by some reflection on its cause, or its consequences; indeed, many trifling events which had been long forgotten then crowded into my imagination, and with the character of recent familiarity.

The length of time that was occupied by this deluge of ideas, or rather the shortness of time into which they were condensed, I cannot now state with precision, yet certainly not two minutes could not have elapsed from the moment of suffocation to that of my being hauled up."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_review

Shaviro’s notes:

Chapter 8

How do we distinguish the beginning from the end, creation out of the void from the farewell to all creation?

How does this vision of paradise relate to the indistinction of the beginning of creation?

Talking about Moses and Old Doc. This is why the bus-driver called Doc a “damned Republican” and a “black Republican”; being a Republican distinguishes him from almost everyone else, but he cannot make the distinction he would like to make between himself and old Doc.

Chapter 9

What does it mean for Miss MacIntosh, of all people, to NOT be merely what she seemed?

Logical fallacy - erroneous reasoning that has the appearance of soundness.

This is a list of fallacies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies

So to be fair Madge’s comment was correct, if we had to use logic for everything we would be able to talk about anything and what’s the fun in that! XD

This is the YouTube playlist again which has videos to help explain representation (the outward forms we take in the world).

Edgar Allen Poe

Page 191 Chapter 9 “The dream was always the lie.” I remembered I found this and put it in Volume 3…

I was having recording issues so you get three instead of one… I’ll see if I can’t figure it out for next time.