Comments on: The Titan Leeds Hoax. http://www.johnbyronkuhner.com/2012/08/the-titan-leeds-hoax/ ET QUI FECERE ET QUI ALIORUM FACTA SCRIPSERE LAUDANTUR Wed, 08 May 2013 11:18:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: jfq http://www.johnbyronkuhner.com/2012/08/the-titan-leeds-hoax/#comment-21254 jfq Mon, 10 Sep 2012 15:59:39 +0000 http://www.johnbyronkuhner.com/?p=3350#comment-21254 I like that idea. Though it must depend on the sense of the humor, and the sound of the laughter it inspires. Misspent levity can be a kind of cruelty. This reminds me of that monk in The Name of the Rose who said that laughter was the principle of all evil. He just couldn't handle a joshing Jesus! I don't know much about Lawrence the man but he doesn't strike me as the type of guy who could take a joke. More of a Leeds than a Franklin. I like that idea. Though it must depend on the sense of the humor, and the sound of the laughter it inspires. Misspent levity can be a kind of cruelty.

This reminds me of that monk in The Name of the Rose who said that laughter was the principle of all evil. He just couldn’t handle a joshing Jesus!

I don’t know much about Lawrence the man but he doesn’t strike me as the type of guy who could take a joke. More of a Leeds than a Franklin.

]]> By: jbkuhner http://www.johnbyronkuhner.com/2012/08/the-titan-leeds-hoax/#comment-21249 jbkuhner Mon, 10 Sep 2012 05:34:39 +0000 http://www.johnbyronkuhner.com/?p=3350#comment-21249 One of the more intriguing parts of Isaacson's biography is a review of the bile Franklin has inspired, including that piece from D.H. Lawrence. I will confess I am a bit mystified by so much opposition to Franklin. His irony is not the preferred method for all - and not for me either - but as with much 18th century irony, it covers depths. Humor may be the deepest depth anyway. It certainly does seem to be the way to make some kind of public progress out of private depth, which is secretly in the heart of every artist, I think. One of the more intriguing parts of Isaacson’s biography is a review of the bile Franklin has inspired, including that piece from D.H. Lawrence. I will confess I am a bit mystified by so much opposition to Franklin. His irony is not the preferred method for all – and not for me either – but as with much 18th century irony, it covers depths. Humor may be the deepest depth anyway. It certainly does seem to be the way to make some kind of public progress out of private depth, which is secretly in the heart of every artist, I think.

]]> By: jfq http://www.johnbyronkuhner.com/2012/08/the-titan-leeds-hoax/#comment-21244 jfq Sat, 08 Sep 2012 21:09:40 +0000 http://www.johnbyronkuhner.com/?p=3350#comment-21244 I don't think we can make a proper account of Ben without hearing from David Herbert: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/LAWRENCE/dhlch02.htm I don’t think we can make a proper account of Ben without hearing from David Herbert:

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/LAWRENCE/dhlch02.htm

]]> By: Alex T. http://www.johnbyronkuhner.com/2012/08/the-titan-leeds-hoax/#comment-21211 Alex T. Sat, 01 Sep 2012 23:26:49 +0000 http://www.johnbyronkuhner.com/?p=3350#comment-21211 bizarre but funny bizarre but funny

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