Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 35, No. 462. Department of Digital Humanities, University of Cologne Hosted by DH-Cologne www.dhhumanist.org Submit to: humanist@dhhumanist.org Date: 2022-01-13 11:36:15+00:00 From: scholar-at-large@bell.net <scholar-at-large@bell.net> Subject: Beaten, Beating, Breaking, Broken Willard It was with revivified hopes that I came across your invocation of the Biblical passage (I don’t know where or in what form it occurs much less the transformations that translation has wrought — there are other scholars better than I to answer the question of provenance and begetting). I can in my limited fashion ring the changes on your text. [quote] What we can do, as was said long ago, is to beat swords into plowshares. [/quote] I ask if breaking fits into the picture, perhaps as a prelude to beating. Or the repeated beating so heats the metal as to cause a break. I truly intend all allusions hear to an epistemology of the episteme à la Foucault [1] I also ask because I have a strong childhood association with a war monument that depicts a supine warrior with a broken sword gripped in his dangling hand. A dried wreath is to be found in the picture. I used the image as a cover to the hypertext version of my 1996 thesis hand-coded in HTML. You commented, if I recall correctly, on the design merits of the project. The thin bar at the top of the Bridge (Table of Contents) yielded as an easter egg the cover page. Most users don’t notice this (until now that is) http://homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/BRIDGE.HTM <http://homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/BRIDGE.HTM> A house of many doors is a hypertext. http://homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/GRAND.HTM <http://homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/GRAND.HTM> Still trying to locate the location [2]. Any assistance appreciated. The little tweet with the little image of little me is of course a singular attempt at materializing the aspiration of beating swards into plowshares. I believe I have tried your patience long enough for a single day and thus bid you good beatings and happy mending. F [ 1 ] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Episteme <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Episteme> [ 2 ] https://twitter.com/FranoisLachanc2/status/1421251464400412675 <https://twitter.com/FranoisLachanc2/status/1421251464400412675> François Lachance, Ph.d. scholar-at-large@bell.net @FranoisLachanc2 living in the beginning of the long 22nd century; sequencing the "future antérieur" _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe at: http://dhhumanist.org/Restricted List posts to: humanist@dhhumanist.org List info and archives at at: http://dhhumanist.org Listmember interface at: http://dhhumanist.org/Restricted/ Subscribe at: http://dhhumanist.org/membership_form.php