He walked into the university with little knowledge of the great texts that inform modern democracy and he walked out an expert in those very same texts.
As one Eliot scholar put it, The Waste Land is "a great nihilistic text that confirms every desperate thought you have had about the world", but it nevertheless ends on a mystical note of great stillness and hope.
One indication of the importance of Confucianism to Japan today is that the modern word for "university", daigaku (Chinese: Daxue) is taken from the title of the first of the four books of Neo-Confucianism, the Daxue (The Great Learning; Japanese: Daigaku), a text that was understood as the gateway to learning for adults.
This last, otherwise known as Paiśācī, is the language of Guṇāḍhya's Bṛhatkathā ("Great Collection of Stories"), a lost text that is the source of the later Bṛhatkathāmañjarī ("Anthology of the Bṛhatkathā") by the 11th-century Kashmiri Kṣemendra and the Kathāsaritsāgara ("Ocean of Rivers of Tales") of Somadeva, also a Kashmiri of the 11th century but later than Kṣemendra.
Glass writes, "My plan has been for the symphony to represent a broad spectrum of many of the world's great 'wisdom' traditions", synthesizing "a vocal text that begins before the world's creation, passes through earthly life and paradise, and closes with a future dedication".
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If the text was a great text, and "A Christmas Carol" is a great text, then my job was to entertain, divert, excite, alarm and, most important, open windows in that text that would permit audiences to perceive things, make associations, illuminate their own world in a way that I, the actor, had no control over.
"We use up enormous energy in arguing at great length over texts that provide few, if any, followup mechanisms or assurances that governments and U.N. agencies will carry forward the declarations that are agreed," she said.
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It's fun to watch the pauses, deletions, misspellings and bursts of text that come from great poets writing against the clock.
