From the Archives: The Self and its Sources Part 3

Definitions: Myth and Plot

From the Archives: The Self and its Sources Part 2

The problem of the Enlightenment’s romanticizing the Greco-Roman tradition.

From the Archives: The Self and its Sources Part 1

This excerpt begins a series of presentations Gil Bailie made in 1994 under the title "The Self and its Sources - Reflections on the art of the novel". The original series of recordings was made on six 90 minute cassette tapes.

The decline of religion made it necessary to invent the steam engine

from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

We didn’t stop burning witches because we had invented science, we invented science because we stopped burning witches.

from Things Hidden from the Foundation of the World by Rene Girard

From the Archives: Crucial Choice Part 57 - The Displaced Person

All their eyes came together in one moment and froze them in collusion for ever…no community is formed.
Mrs. Macintyre felt she was in some foreign country where the people bent over the body were natives.

This is the final excerpt from the Crucial Choice series. Both CD and MP3 versions of the complete 'Crucial Choice' series will be available soon from the Cornerstone Forum webstore.

I will be begin posting a new series of excerpts from Gil Bailie's tape archives in the coming days.

From the Archives: Crucial Choice Part 56 - The Displaced Person

The sacrificial dénouement…the world recedes from the little circle around Mr. Guizak

From the Archives: Crucial Choice Part 55 - The Displaced Person

Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord.
Turning grief into grievance.

From the Archives: Crucial Choice Part 54 - The Displaced Person

Mr. Shortly finds his voice.
The crisis of distinctions

From the Archives: Crucial Choice Part 53 - The Displaced Person

The sacrificial event as an act of God.

From the Archives: Crucial Choice Part 52 - The Displaced Person

Mrs. Mcintyre tries to let Mr. Guizac go

From the Archives: Crucial Choice Part 51 - The Displaced Person

Mr. Shortly, “I’m not a violent man, but…”
All victimizers must pose as either a victim or the defender of victims

From the Archives: Crucial Choice Part 50 - The Displaced Person

Remembering all the arguments…myth is in trouble when we have to remember the arguments to support it.
The priest and the Judge…the Church speaks a truth capable of reinterpretation, but the Judge’s safe is locked but empty.

From the Archives: Crucial Choice Part 49 - The Displaced Person

Mrs. McIntyre, “As far as I’m concerned Christ was just another DP…”

From the Archives: Crucial Choice Part 48 - The Displaced Person

Meister Eckhart: “We must learn to act without motivation…”

The return of Mr. Shortly. He recalls his experience in the ‘first world’s war’…

From the Archives: Crucial Choice Part 47 - The Displaced Person

Reprise of the priest and the peacock…”Christ will come like that!”

From the Archives: Crucial Choice Part 46 - The Displaced Person

Stage 2: Converting a human being into a vermin

But the priest wants to talk about purgatory…the place where one rids oneself of mimetic reflexes.