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Mel Gibson's movie The Man Without a Face, Selected and introduced for ELLOPOS by Nat Gerrs

 

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Second act: Norstadt writes his first essay  (3'33'')

Norstadt doesn't understand the point of diging holes and writing essays. Learn or leave, part two. The beast tames the fool.

 

 

Third act: The beast teaches geometry  (1'49'')

As a good Greek teacher, McLeod connects the idea with the entities. Norstadt is distracted.

 

Fourth act: The beast teaches poetry - Reality as a linguistic demand  (1'40'')

Wordsworth won't work. Norstadt brings Magee's poem at the desert and takes off.

 

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 Cf. Someone Like Hodder | Rilke, Letter to a young poet | Jaspers, Truth is in communication | J. O. y Gassett, The Revolt of the Masses | Tom Schulman, Dead Poets Society | Wordsworth's and Magee's poems | K. Mansfield, There was a child once

More by Nat Gerrs : Why Europe? | J. M. Lefévre, The White Thinking