IM Stephen Crane, died June 5, 1900

[SteveMR200]

A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!"

"However," replied the universe, "The fact has not
created in me a sense of obligation."

--Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
_War Is Kind And Other Lines_ [1899],
"A Man Said To The Universe," Number 20

Have You Seen Me?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Crane

--
Steve

[David C Kifer]

On 6/6/2015 9:31 AM, SteveMR200 wrote:
> A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!"
>
> "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not
> created in me a sense of obligation."
>
> --Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
> _War Is Kind And Other Lines_ [1899],
> "A Man Said To The Universe," Number 20

Science enjoys great prestige as it has led to great results, such as iPhones. Perhaps because of
this scientists, for some reason thought to be smarter than the rest of humanity, are seen as
oracles and almost as priests. Yet they have nothing to say, and can have nothing to say, about
meaning, purpose, origins, destiny, consciousness, beauty, right and wrong, Good and Evil, death,
love or loathing.
These are matters of some importance to normal people whose thinking is not crippled by strict
adherence to the Laws of Motion. A scientist, as a scientist, must dismiss them as empty
abstractions, simply ignore them, or provide unsatisfactory answers and quickly change the subject.
A physicist may speak solemnly of the Big Bang, but it has no more explanatory power than Genesis.
A child of six years will ask, “But where did God come from?” Or the Big Bang.
--Fred On Everything, Can Scientists Think? Euclid Cannot Explain a Hamburger
http://www.fredoneverything.net/Scientism.shtml


--
Dave
"Tam multi libri, tam breve tempus!"
(Et brevis pecunia.) [Et breve spatium.]

[SteveMR200]

He had fought like a pagan who defends his religion.
--Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
_The Red Badge of Courage_ [1895], Chapter 17

Have You Seen Me?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Crane

--
Steve

[TheSanityInspector]

I was a Socialist for two weeks but when a couple of Socialists
assured me I had no right to think differently from any other
Socialist and then quarrelled with each other about what Socialism
meant, I ran away.
-- Crane, in Jay Martin, _Harvests of Changes, American Literature,
1865-1914_

This young man has the power to feel. He knows nothing of war, yet he
is drenched in blood. Most beginners who deal with this subject
splatter themselves merely with ink.
-- Ambrose Bierce, of _The Red Badge of Courage_, in John Berryman,
_Stephen Crane_

Tolstoy made the writing of Stephen Crane on the Civil War seem like
the brilliant imagining of a sick boy who had never seen war but had
only read the battle chronicles and see the Brady photographs that I
had read and seen at my grandparents' house.
-- Ernest Hemingway, _A Moveable Feast_

...the coolest man, whether army officer or civilian, that I saw under
fire at any time during the war.
-- Richard Harding Davis, referring to Crane during the
Spanish-American War, in R. W. Stallman, _Stephen Crane_

Stephen Crane was a vortex of intensity in a generally stagnant sea.
He was an artist not as the age understood that word but as the world
at large understands it. I do not say that he was a great artist or
that he was even of the first rank, but what he had was the real thing
and he adulterated it with nothing else.
-- Edmund Wilson, _The Shores of Light_

--
bruce
The dignified don't even enter in the game.
-- The Jam

[SteveMR200]

On Tue, 7 Jun 2016 11:41:17 -0700 (PDT), TheSanityInspector wrote in
message: <af0e76b6-d723-48da...@googlegroups.com>:

>...the coolest man, whether army officer or civilian,
>that I saw under fire at any time during the war.
>-- Richard Harding Davis, referring to Crane during the
> Spanish-American War, in R. W. Stallman, _Stephen Crane_

The coolest man I ever saw under fire was Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson.

ObQuotes:
Look! There is Jackson standing like a stone wall!
Let us determine to die here today and we will conquer!
Rally behind the Virginians!
--"Brig. General Bernard Bee" (Jim Choate)
(In the film _Gods and Generals_ [2003]; written
by Jeff Shaara, screenplay by Ronald F. Maxwell)

Click here to watch the film clip on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq7RA02tOAY


Captain James Power Smith: (Stephen Spacek)
General, how is it that you can keep so serene,
stay so utterly insensible with the storm, the
shells and bullets running about your head?

General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson: (Stephen Lang)
Captain Smith, my religious belief teaches me to
feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed
the time for my death. I do not concern myself
with that, but to be always ready whenever it may
overtake me. That's the way all men should live,
then all men would be equally brave.

--Dialogue from the film _Gods and Generals_ [2003];
written by Jeff Shaara, screenplay by
Ronald F. Maxwell

Click here to watch the film clip on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaFj1u-fk7I
00:04:09

--
Steve