KB in his youth...

KB in his youth...

KB on "Logology is our Logo" from KBN

KB on "Logology is our Logo" from KBN 

Maria Sanford, first woman professor in Minnesota, and professor of Rhetoric, in the Press

Maria Sanford, first woman professor in Minnesota, and professor of Rhetoric, in the Press

KB "As from a Greek Anthology" in KBN

Kenneth Burke, "As from a Greek Anthology," in KBNewsletter

Hulme's Final Thoughts on Cinders

From Speculations

Analogy.
I look at the reality, at London stream, and
dirt, mud, power, and then I think of the pale
shadowy analogy that is used without think-
ing by the automatic philosophers, the
"stream of time." The people who treat
words without reverence, who use analogies
without thinking of them : let us always
remember that solid real stream and the
flat thin voice of the metaphysician, " the
stream of time.''
Extended clay. Looking at the Persian
Gulf on a map and imagining the mud shore
at night.
Pictures of low coasts of any country. We
are all just above the sea.
Delight in perceiving the real cinder con-
struction in a port. Upon mud as distinct
from the clear-cut harbour on the map.
Travel is education in cinders ; the mer-
chants in Hakluyt, and the difference in
song. (When we are all gathered together
and when we are in a book.)
Must see these different manifestations of
the cinders ; otherwise we cannot work the
extended clay.
A melancholy spirit, the mind like a great
desert lifeless, and the sound of march music
in the street, passes like a wave over that
desert, unifies it, but then goes. 

Hulme on Fountains and Knowledge

From Speculations

Truths don't exist before we invent them.
They respond to man's need of economy, just
as beliefs to his need of faith.
The fountain turned on. It has a definite
geometrical shape, but the shape did not
exist before it was turned on. Compare the
arguments about the pre-existence of the
soul.
But the little pipes are there before, which
give it that shape as soon as the water is
turned on.
The water is the same though the geomet-
rical figures of different fountains differ. 

Hulme on the Eagle's Eye

From Speculations
https://archive.org/stream/speculations031991mbp/speculations031991mbp_djvu.txt

The ruling analogy, which is quite false,
must be removed. It is that of the eagle's
eye. The metaphysician imagines that he
surveys the world as with an eagle's eye.
And the farther he flies, the " purer " his
knowledge becomes.
Hence we can see the world as pure
geometry, and can make out its dividing lines.
But the eye is in the mud, the eye is mud.