This blog is partly devoted to the sharing of my learning of the English language (my well mastered mother tongue is Chinese and I am not an English teacher) and its *cultures*, partly to the current significant trends in Canada and in the world, and partly to my own random thoughts and little life. I am not religious, but I am somewhat interested in Christianity and Buddhism, among other personal interests. Welcome. And, have a good day.
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Intriguing is the development of Morality Plays, following that of Mystery Plays, in the Middle Ages' Europe. I'm not sure how the relationships between them and Shakespearean dramas are.
"Having grown out of the religiously based mystery plays of the Middle Ages, they (Morality Plays) represented a shift towards a more secular base for European theatre."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morality_play
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morality_play
(By David Blackwell / http://www.flickr.com/photos/mobilestreetlife/4954319481/ /CC)
(Continuum & spectrum) vs. (black and white)
"Good" and "bad" ... stand at opposite ends of a continuum instead of describing the two halves of a line
--Wayne Shumaker
--Excerpted from the item "continuum" in the Merriam-Webster 11th Collegiate Dictionary
--Wayne Shumaker
--Excerpted from the item "continuum" in the Merriam-Webster 11th Collegiate Dictionary
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
"Men turn, and see the stars"
The Odyssey's epigram, which was written by A. Lang, is so sublime.
Excerpt:
Excerpt:
MEN TURN, AND SEE THE STARS, AND FEEL THE FREE 10
SHRILL WIND BEYOND THE CLOSE OF HEAVY FLOWERS AND THROUGH THE MUSIC OF THE LANGUID HOURS, THEY HEAR LIKE OCEAN ON A WESTERN BEACH THE SURGE AND THUNDER OF THE ODYSSEY.
Monday, August 1, 2011
The finiteness of the number of steps is the key requirement of recursion.
Actually, finiteness must be crucial in the theory of computability.
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