Am 22.10.2006 um 11:16 schrieb Thomas Dent:

> quoth:
>> Dr Seuss is a reservoir of ancien regime enlightenment
>
> how's that for an oxymoron - deliberate I suppose.
funny, my chronology makes the enlightenment a phenomenon Of the ancien 
regime
>
> Am surprised at turpin's apparent embrace of 'Beethoven for Baby's 
> Bedtime'.
>
the only life after death is for the messages  (the symphony in this 
case) and programs you can pass on, by writing them into new mortal 
bearers - information structures have always to recruit fresh matter to 
in-form.

bed the relevant experiences in ritual - intricate behavioural order - 
the littles go for the ceremonialisation of time and get written all 
over without it even tickling

Or that's the way it seemed to me. or it seemed to seem. I dont know 
why, but I felt more inclined to conceive the very small child's 
pleasure as the autistic pleasure of mastery of an 
in-detail-predictable world, rather than a sensual or sentimental 
pleasure(?)