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Edna St. Vincent Millay: Conscientious Objector I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death. I hear him leading his horse out of the stall; I hear the clatter on the barn-floor. He is in haste; he has business in Cuba, business in the Balkans, many calls to make this morning. [...]
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“Testimony: He Or His Apparition”
July 4th, 2010 
Daniel Fincke From Three Poems by Nicole Cooley: Testimony: He or His Apparition About noon, at Salem, Giles Corey was press’d to death for standing Mute. — Samuel Sewall, Diary, September 19, 1692 The girls’ testimony is gravel scattered on the grass. Ann Putnam: Giles Corey or his Apperance has most greviously afflected me by beating pinching and almost [...]
Posted in History, Virtues 
Tags: Conscience, Courage, Nicole Cooley, Poems, Poetry, Salem Witch Trials, Testimony: He Or His Apparition, The Afflicted Girls 
No Comments »Zombie Cockroaches! (And Other Dissertation Haikus)
September 22nd, 2009 Daniel Fincke When you spend years writing away at a dissertation you learn how to do at least one thing exceedingly well—and that’s to describe your dissertation distinctly and succinctly. And sometimes succinctly means boiling it down to just a paragraph or a couple sentences or even one sentence. Or a haiku. Like these people have done: [...]
The Cat Piano (Narrated By Nick Cave)
September 12th, 2009 Daniel Fincke A complete animated noir short set to an Eddie White poem narrated by Nick Cave and directed by Ari Gibson and Eddie White: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Arts Tags: Animated Shorts, Ari Gibson, Cats, Eddie White, Nick Cave, Noir, Poetry, Short Films, The Cat Piano No Comments »Bukowski and Mouse
August 31st, 2009 Daniel Fincke Charles Bukowski, “The Genius Of The Crowd” there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day and the best at murder are those who preach against it and the best at hate are those who preach love and the best at war finally [...]
Posted in Arts, God, Indie Music, Indie Rock, Music, Music Videos, Videos Tags: "The Genius Of The Crowd", Charles Bukowski, Modest Mouse, Poetry No Comments »Disambiguating Faith: Faith In The Sub-, Pre-, Or Un-conscious
August 25th, 2009 Daniel Fincke In previous posts (which you will not need to have read to understand this one, but which I recommend you catch up on if you have the time now or later), Adam has tried to argue that irrational ways of thinking may be indispensable means of getting at truth. In response, I have tried to [...]
Posted in Arts, Disambiguating Faith, Epistemology, Faith, Featured, Music, Philosophy, Psychology, Religion Tags: Arists, Art, Discursive vs. Non-Discursive Thinking, Emotional Logic, Irrationalism, Metaphor, Myth, Painting, Poetry, Religious Imagery, Religious Myth, Religious Symbols, Subconscious, Subconscious Reasoning, Symbolic Thinking, Symbols, Unconscious 9 Comments »Plato: Myth and Logic
August 5th, 2009 Daniel Fincke New on the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, an interesting article on Plato’s attempt to merge muthos and logos. Here’s the description: What the ancient Greeks—at least in the archaic phase of their civilisation—called muthos was quite different from what we and the media nowadays call “myth”. For them a muthos was a true story, a [...]
Posted in Historical Philosophy, Plato Tags: Ancient Greeks, Greek History, Greek Philosophy, Myth, Noble Lies, Oral Tradition, peri phuseōs, Poetry, Thucydides No Comments »Senseless (written by me, freshman year in college)
September 3rd, 2006 Daniel Fincke Senseless The infamously bored and restless indescript Complained with the angry—they’re still not over it Partied with the pagans—they’re still hungover it Worshipped intellectuals ‘til they saw one pick his nose
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