Nietzsche - On the Use and Abuse of History
Nietzsche, On the Use and Abuse of History trans. Ian C. JohnstonOne day the man demands of the beast: "Why do you not talk to me about your happiness and only gaze at me?" The beast wants to answer, too, and say: "That comes about because I always immediately forget what I wanted to say." But by then the beast has already forgotten this reply and remains silent, so that the man wonders on once more.
But he also wonders about himself, that he is not able to learn to forget and that he always hangs onto past things. No matter how far or how fast he runs, this chain runs with him. It is something amazing: the moment, in one sudden motion there, in one sudden motion gone, before nothing, afterwards nothing, nevertheless comes back again as a ghost and disturbs the tranquility of each later moment. A leaf is continuously released from the roll of time, falls out, flutters away--and suddenly flutters back again into the man's lap. For the man says, "I remember," and envies the beast, which immediately forgets and sees each moment really perish, sink back in cloud and night, and vanish forever.
e-text from
Ian Johnstone's site, which has a wide selection of translations and transcripts (plus many lecturer notes):
On the Use and Abuse of History for Life 1873
Richard Feyman's letters (reviewed by Freeman Dyson)
I've mentioned him quite a few times because he's one of my heroes, not because I undersood his physics completely (I'm a biologist), but he impressed me because he seemed to be interested in any challenge and was a great teacher. One of his several autobiographical books tells an enchanting story about ants on his window sill and the impromtu experiments he did with a piece of folded paper, that would charm even the most die-hard unscientifically-minded person.
Perectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P Feynman
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Commentary on how language is used and abused in advertising, politics, the law, and other areas of public life. You can think of it as a linguistic self defense course in which you and I prepare ourselves to do battle with the forces of linguistic evil.Mike GeisLocation: Columbus, Ohio, United States
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A lot of interesting links which lead to
AbecedariaA blog about keyboarding in diverse scripts, literacy and digital literacy, and random quotes selected from the history of writing system theory.
OmniglotA guide to written language
From here, a bunch of language course sites, many of them substantially free.
Tried (learning from scratch with book and CDs but wanting a change)
BBC Spanishis very well done with sound, though is just designed to give a few situations: not got 'buying a ticket' and 'the cash machines' so studiously copied them down knowing they would be used.
Spanish Online Mostly a taster for the course but this was not in my own book :
Exploring "To Be" Verbs in Spanish: Ser and Estar
