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Class is Back in Session
Kenneth Gregg's weblog CLASSical Liberal explores the less-traveled byways of libertarian history. After several months of inactivity, it's being updated regularly again, with recent posts devoted to such subjects as the work of the historian Margaret C. Jacob and, most recently, a political reading of Pinocchio. The latter entry evolves into a history of dissident puppetry, touching on figures ranging from the 'pataphysician Alfred Jarry to the science-fiction fabulist Karel Capek. It's a consistently fascinating site -- well worth a look.
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garym|6.29.04 @ 5:28AM|#
From Collodi's Pinocchio -- as Dave Barry would say, I'm not making this up:
"Look out, you horrid old Cricket. If I fly into a temper it'll be the worse for you."
"Poor Pinocchio! I really pity you!"
"Why do you pity me?"
"Because you are a puppet and, what is worse, because you have a wooden head."
At these last words Pinocchio jumped up in a rage, and snatching a wooden hammer from the bench he threw it at the Talking Cricket.
Perhaps he never meant to hit him; but unfortunately it struck him exactly on the head, so that the poor Cricket had scarcely breath to cry cri-cri-cri, and then he stuck, flattened against the wall, stiff and lifeless.
Kevin Carson|6.29.04 @ 8:35AM|#
This is great news! I hadn't checked his blog in quite a while because it had been inactive so long, but it's got some great stuff. Gregg has an amazing knowledge of the minutiae of classical liberal history, equalled only by a handful of other people. Two of the latter, George H. Smith and Shawn Wilbur, frequent SEK3's LeftLibertarian list along with Kenneth Gregg.
Kevin Carson|6.29.04 @ 8:38AM|#
BTW, back when I was reading AIA's *Campus Report*, one of the funniest things I ever saw was a collection of excerpts from a pomo scholarly article elaborating (in great detail) on the pedophilic subtexts in Pinocchio. I just about laughed myself into an aneurism.