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Friday Notebook 06.24.2011
More from Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose, a very quotable novel, as it turns out: Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another’s fear. * We know things better through love than through knowledge. [A translation from the Latin of Thomas Aquinas: Amor est magis cognitivus quam cognitio.] * “In Paris do they always have the true answers?” “Never,” William said, “but they are very sure of their errors.” * Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry.Read More
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Friday Notebook 06.17.2011 (Insulting the Muse)
I somehow missed reading Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose in the years when it was so wildly popular, but I’m reading it now and enjoying the hell out of it (to put it eschatologically). Here are a couple of brief passages from the book that found their way into my notebook this week: In those dark times a wise man had to believe things that were in contradiction among themselves. * As an ancient proverb says, three fingers hold the pen, but the whole body works. And aches. Those were the scant pickin’s this week.Read More
Joseph Hutchison, Colorado Poet Laureate 2014-2019, has published 20 collections of poems and edited or co-edited three poetry anthologies. He currently directs two master’s-level programs for University College at the University of Denver: Professional Creative Writing and Arts & Culture Management. Joe lives with his wife, Melody Madonna, in the mountains southwest of Denver, Colorado, the city where he was born. 
