Well I'm going to try to not make this blog such an epic fail anymore, although I will probably only blog on semi-Colloquium related topics until after April 14th...
"Why are we here? What is the sound of one hand clapping? If a tree falls in a forest, and there's no one around to witness it, will Alain de Botton write an entire book about it anyway?"
I enjoyed this part of the caustic review after our discussion in
Steve Hutkins' class, A Sense of Place, yesterday regarding
Andy Goldsworthy and
"Rivers and Tides" and "if A.G. makes a natural sculpture and no one is there to film or photograph it, did he actually create it?" Something like that…
I should probably write about all this in
my blog for Hutkins' class, but I have to get back to my reading. Also, check out
my blogs (3-in-one deal!) for his other courses, The Art of Travel (no coincidence here, it's based around ADB's book), Literary Geography, and American Road Trip. Yeah… Gallatin is the best.
I should add more links to this post, i'll try to get to that soon… you know, because I'm SO good at being a blogger...