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Nietzsche. She was appointed to a chair at the Sorbonne in 1991 and committed suicide three years later, on the 150th anniversary of Nietzsche’s birth.
MARTIAL, AKA MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS (38/41–102/104)
A Hispanic poet who lived in Rome and is known for his twelve volumes of epigrams, which are often very saucy and rather amusing.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT (1850–1893)
French writer and acknowledged master of the short story form. His 1887 story “Le Horla” is a work of unforgettable terror. Please read it.
METRODORUS (145 BCE – 70 BCE )
From the town of Skepsis in ancient Mysia, in Anatolia. He was known for his prodigious memory and his hatred of the Romans.
PICO DELLA MIRANDOLA (1463–1494)
Student of Ficino and philosophical meteor whose syncretic metaphysics drew on a dazzling array of sources, some of them Hermetic, Zoroastrian, Orphic, Pythagorean, and Cabbalistic. He ran into trouble with the Pope and died in suspicious circumstances, possibly poisoned by his secretary.
HENRI MONGIN
As far as I am aware, he did not exist.
PETHIDINE
A once-popular opioid of the phenylpiperidine class, for the treatment of acute pain, whose effects are often compared to those of morphine.
NECRONAUT
A term derived from the Greek for “corpse” or “dead”
(nekros
) and sailor (
nautes
) to describe a being concerned with navigation and mortality. It also describes a memberof the International Necronautical Society, founded in 1999 in London. Such members are legion.
CLEMENT ROSSET (1939–)
A French philosopher and author of many short, scintillating books, notably
The Real and Its Double
and
The Principle of Cruelty
. A joyfully tragic thinker whom the protagonist encountered at the University of Nice, teaching ancient Greek and Roman materialism.
BERT VAN ROERMUND (1947–)
Actually not an architect, but a Dutch legal philosopher and professor at Tilburg University.
ANDRÉ SCHUWER (1916–1995)
A Dutch philosopher who taught at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, ordained as a priest in the Franciscan order in 1943. He was a proponent of phenomenology, especially the writings of Husserl and Heidegger, and a person of great wit and kindness.
SIGER OF BRABANT (1240 – 1284)
The most radical of the Paris Averroists, who proposed the separation of the truths of philosophy, as articulated by Aristotle (who else?), from the experience of faith. Afterbeing forced to flee Paris for sanctuary in Orvieto, Italy, he was stabbed to death by his secretary.
SIMONIDES OF CEOS (556 BCE – 468 BCE )
Greek poet, noted for his lyrics, elegaics, and epigrams, and inventor of the mnemonic technique behind the idea of the memory theater.
SOPHOCLES (497/6 BCE – 406/5 BCE )
The great Attic tragedian who needs no gloss, but here are translations of the two fragments quoted above:
1. “A man is nothing but breath and shadow.”
2. “But no falsehood lasts into old age.”
RUDI THOEMMES
Purveyor of rare books concerned with the history of ideas. Based in Bristol, England.
TILBURG
A peculiarly ordinary, indeed rather plain, city in the southern Netherlands. It was once famous for its manufacture of woolen goods.
“TIMOR MORTIS CONTURBAT ME”
“The fear of death confounds me,” a repeated refrain in a beautiful poem by the Scottish poet William Dunbar (1460–?) called “Lament for the Makars.”
LA TRAPPE
A highly intoxicating Trappist beer fabricated in several varieties in De Koningshoeven Brewery, Netherlands.
UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX
Established in 1963, Essex is a small, architecturally brutal, but once intellectually beautiful and vibrant place. The protagonist in
Memory Theater
had been an undergraduate and PhD student before becoming a teacher in the Philosophy Department. He left in 2003.
FRANCES YATES (1899–1981)
Dame Frances Amelia Yates was an English historian of great distinction who taught and researched for many years at the Warburg Institute of the University of London. In addition to
The
MARTIAL, AKA MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS (38/41–102/104)
A Hispanic poet who lived in Rome and is known for his twelve volumes of epigrams, which are often very saucy and rather amusing.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT (1850–1893)
French writer and acknowledged master of the short story form. His 1887 story “Le Horla” is a work of unforgettable terror. Please read it.
METRODORUS (145 BCE – 70 BCE )
From the town of Skepsis in ancient Mysia, in Anatolia. He was known for his prodigious memory and his hatred of the Romans.
PICO DELLA MIRANDOLA (1463–1494)
Student of Ficino and philosophical meteor whose syncretic metaphysics drew on a dazzling array of sources, some of them Hermetic, Zoroastrian, Orphic, Pythagorean, and Cabbalistic. He ran into trouble with the Pope and died in suspicious circumstances, possibly poisoned by his secretary.
HENRI MONGIN
As far as I am aware, he did not exist.
PETHIDINE
A once-popular opioid of the phenylpiperidine class, for the treatment of acute pain, whose effects are often compared to those of morphine.
NECRONAUT
A term derived from the Greek for “corpse” or “dead”
(nekros
) and sailor (
nautes
) to describe a being concerned with navigation and mortality. It also describes a memberof the International Necronautical Society, founded in 1999 in London. Such members are legion.
CLEMENT ROSSET (1939–)
A French philosopher and author of many short, scintillating books, notably
The Real and Its Double
and
The Principle of Cruelty
. A joyfully tragic thinker whom the protagonist encountered at the University of Nice, teaching ancient Greek and Roman materialism.
BERT VAN ROERMUND (1947–)
Actually not an architect, but a Dutch legal philosopher and professor at Tilburg University.
ANDRÉ SCHUWER (1916–1995)
A Dutch philosopher who taught at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, ordained as a priest in the Franciscan order in 1943. He was a proponent of phenomenology, especially the writings of Husserl and Heidegger, and a person of great wit and kindness.
SIGER OF BRABANT (1240 – 1284)
The most radical of the Paris Averroists, who proposed the separation of the truths of philosophy, as articulated by Aristotle (who else?), from the experience of faith. Afterbeing forced to flee Paris for sanctuary in Orvieto, Italy, he was stabbed to death by his secretary.
SIMONIDES OF CEOS (556 BCE – 468 BCE )
Greek poet, noted for his lyrics, elegaics, and epigrams, and inventor of the mnemonic technique behind the idea of the memory theater.
SOPHOCLES (497/6 BCE – 406/5 BCE )
The great Attic tragedian who needs no gloss, but here are translations of the two fragments quoted above:
1. “A man is nothing but breath and shadow.”
2. “But no falsehood lasts into old age.”
RUDI THOEMMES
Purveyor of rare books concerned with the history of ideas. Based in Bristol, England.
TILBURG
A peculiarly ordinary, indeed rather plain, city in the southern Netherlands. It was once famous for its manufacture of woolen goods.
“TIMOR MORTIS CONTURBAT ME”
“The fear of death confounds me,” a repeated refrain in a beautiful poem by the Scottish poet William Dunbar (1460–?) called “Lament for the Makars.”
LA TRAPPE
A highly intoxicating Trappist beer fabricated in several varieties in De Koningshoeven Brewery, Netherlands.
UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX
Established in 1963, Essex is a small, architecturally brutal, but once intellectually beautiful and vibrant place. The protagonist in
Memory Theater
had been an undergraduate and PhD student before becoming a teacher in the Philosophy Department. He left in 2003.
FRANCES YATES (1899–1981)
Dame Frances Amelia Yates was an English historian of great distinction who taught and researched for many years at the Warburg Institute of the University of London. In addition to
The
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