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■ See Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, trans. Anscombe (New York,
1953), Part I, 194, 309.
^ To give writers some credit, consider Theodore Dreiser’s observation (in Sister Carrie)
that an actor’s face is “representative o f all desire,” and that this is every performer’s
sublime gift, or burden: to express eternal desire in an ephemeral gaze, a look, or moment
o f unfathomable longing. That’s why Carrie is called to be stage.
“and tonight the stars’ll be out, and don’t you know that God is Pooh-Bear,” Kerouac,
On the Road, intro. Ann Charters (New York, 2002), 352.
^ “The Bookchat o f Henry James,” 1986, repr. in United States: Essays 1952-1992, 1993,
171).
^ 1903; ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Terri Hume Oliver (New York, 1999).
^ Souls, 164, capitals in original.
* For details, including Peirce’s views on semiotics, agapism, and the community o f
inquiry, plus parallels with Steeves, see Collected Papers o f Charles Sanders Peirce, ed.
Charles Hartshore, Paul Weiss, Arthur W. Burks (Cambridge, MA, 1931-35, 1958), esp.
“Some Consequences o f Four Incapacities” (1868), CP 5.264-317; “Man’s Glassy
Essence” (1892), CP 6.238-271, “Ev olutionary Love” (1893), CP 6.452-485; “The
Connection Between Mind and Matter” (1893), CP 6.272-277; “A Neglected Argument
for the Reality o f God” (1908), CP 6.452-485; and the review o f Fraser’s edition o f
Berkeley's Works (1871), CP 8.7-38.
Nelson Algren, Notes from a Sea Diaty: Hemingw^ay All the Way (New York, 1965).
Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Divinity School Address” (1838), reproduced in Nature,
Addresses and Lectures (1849). The full text is readily available on various websites,
including . The exact phrase is “we have
listened too long to the courtly muses o f Europe.” Emerson included him self in that
group, as a disciple o f Kant and Coleridge, among others. And he didn’t mean that we
should stop listening altogether; merely that it’s high time to stop parroting our elders,
and start developing ideas that suit our peculiar time, place and circumstances as
Americans.
Not just Smolin or Margulis, great as they are, or even Stephen J. Gould, and the
oracular Buckminster Fuller, but pioneers such as Norbert Wiener, Lewis Mumford, and
above all, Suzanne Langer, whose Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling (3 Vols.,
Baltimore, 1967-82) is the ultimate evolutionary synthesis.
1924; film, dir. David Lean, 1984.
Co-authored with Steven Izenour and Denise Scott Brown, rev. ed., Cambridge, MA,
1977.
Passage (New York, 1924), 32.
Giambattista Vico, The New Science, 1725, tr. Bergin and Fisch (Ithaca, NY, 1984).
(1943), tr. Barnes (New York, 1956).
John Steinbeck, The Grapes o f Wrath, 1939, intro. Brad Leithauser (New York, 1993),
29. Film, dir. John Ford, 1940.
Grapes, 534. In the film these lines are part o f Henry Fonda’s farewell to Ma Joad,
played by Jane Darwell.
Last scene, from The Bitter Tea o f General Ken, dir. Frank R. Capra, 1933.