Old; and Alt (German) Old "Alt" originally meant, "Grown up"; the participle of "growing"; related to "Alan," which meant, "to grow" but no longer exists in modern German. In Old English, the word "Alan" was also used in this same sense of growing or nourishing. Related to the Latin "alt" meaning "high."
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i'd prefer to make it but i'll take it
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what emerson said of montaigne is true of whitman too: if you cut his words, they will bleed," for they are vascular and alive." whitman's poetry describes our anatomical reality. In the mirror of his art, we see the stark fact of our own improbability. Feeling from flesh? Soul from body? Body from soul? our existence makes no sense, we live inside a contradiction. whitman exposes this truth and then in the very next sentence, accepts it. his only answer is that there is no answer. "i and this mystery, here we stand," whitman once said, and that pretty much says it all. yet the acceptance of contradiction has its own consequences. as randall jarrell wrote in an essay on whitman, "when you recognize one of the contradictory elements out of your work of art, you are getting rid not just of it, but of the contradiction of which make them able to represent us-as logical and methodical generalizations cannot-our worlds and our selves, which are full of contradictions." by trusting his experience, no matter how paradoxical it might seem, whitman discovered our anatomical reality. despite the constant calls for his censure, he never doubted the wisdom of his art. "now i see it's true what i guess'd at," whitman wrote in "song of myself." what he guessed at, of course, is that the soul is made of flesh. jonah lehrer from 'proust was a neuroscientist'
just finished the harry potter series and i think i will coast off of that for a bit
emperor norton I, emperor of these united states and holy protector of mexico. for real. he was a stand up guy.