In The News
In the news today, Richard Schickel of the Los Angeles Times wrote about critical standards in blogging and in the writing of reviews for the edification and provocation of others. There are many fascinating lines in this op-ed piece; for example, he writes, "The act of writing for print, with its implication of permanence, concentrates the mind most wonderfully. It imposes on writer and reader a sense of responsibility that mere yammering does not. It is the difference between cocktail-party chat and logically reasoned discourse that sits still on a page, inviting serious engagement."
How true!
In other news today, five Singapore schools were chosen to lead a new push for high-tech classrooms, proclaims that trumpet of Singapore Inc., the Straits Times. It is interesting to note that only one of them is an elite Singapore school (a list also defined by that publication) and that this particular school has not got a Latin motto or a peculiar heraldic beast on its insignia. Further in, that school is labelled a 'Global Academy'.
How interesting!
And on page 32 of that same newspaper is an article titled A Questionable Grip On The Steering. It has a very sharp line buried in it somewhere (a bit like the Guioco Piano, but I digress): "The history of the latest new things... is rocket-like ascent followed by major malfunctions. The malfunctions usually can be traced to hubris." The article is about Cerberus and Daimler. It's all right, this isn't exactly Tristan and Isolde or even Proctor and Gamble.
How profound!
Anyone can read the news. But it takes panache to read the news and from it prophesy the downfall of civilisation, the flapping of the final butterfly, and the erosion of the world to come. For me, all I can say is that to sit on a buttressed coign of vantage, inhaling the rarefied and delicate breath of heaven, is a relief from prophecy. And I don't have to say anything.
How true!
In other news today, five Singapore schools were chosen to lead a new push for high-tech classrooms, proclaims that trumpet of Singapore Inc., the Straits Times. It is interesting to note that only one of them is an elite Singapore school (a list also defined by that publication) and that this particular school has not got a Latin motto or a peculiar heraldic beast on its insignia. Further in, that school is labelled a 'Global Academy'.
How interesting!
And on page 32 of that same newspaper is an article titled A Questionable Grip On The Steering. It has a very sharp line buried in it somewhere (a bit like the Guioco Piano, but I digress): "The history of the latest new things... is rocket-like ascent followed by major malfunctions. The malfunctions usually can be traced to hubris." The article is about Cerberus and Daimler. It's all right, this isn't exactly Tristan and Isolde or even Proctor and Gamble.
How profound!
Anyone can read the news. But it takes panache to read the news and from it prophesy the downfall of civilisation, the flapping of the final butterfly, and the erosion of the world to come. For me, all I can say is that to sit on a buttressed coign of vantage, inhaling the rarefied and delicate breath of heaven, is a relief from prophecy. And I don't have to say anything.
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