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Santa Cruz in the ’60′s
“How could I fail to be grateful to my whole life? —and I tell my life to myself.”
Nietzsche: Ecce Homo
by Paul A. Lee
Bumping into a friend at the Harvard Coop who told me he had applied for a position at Santa Cruz but had changed his mind, I said, “Well, maybe I’ll apply.” He looked at me askance and said: “Do you know anything about the California University sssssystem?” I didn’t, but I registered the hiss in the way he pronounced the word system. I thought: snake in the grass? I was teaching at M.I.T. and my term was about to expire and I needed a job. Soon after an article appeared in the New York Times that Kenneth Thimann had been appointed Provost of Crown College, UCSC. I went to the phone. I was a Fellow of a Radcliffe House where Thimann was Provost and I knew him. He was a very distinguished professor of botany at Harvard. We went over for tea and he hired me.
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Alan Chadwick and the Arcadian Garden: A Memoir and a Tribute
by Paul A. Lee
Platonic Academy Press
131 Spring St.
Santa Cruz, California
95060
1997
for Charlene over a caffe latte
to be read as an online accompaniment to THERE IS A GARDEN IN THE MIND, Alan Chadwick and the Origins of the Organic Movement in California,
by Paul A. Lee
the Greenwood Press, San Francisco, California, 2009
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PAUL A. LEE
131 SPRING ST.
SANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA
831 469 3384
DRPALEE@AOL.COM
Act One Scenes 1–5
Act Two Scenes 1–6
Act Three Scenes 1–7
Cast of characters
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Paul’s Letter to the Athenians
An excursus on faith in the mode of negative or apophatic theology, faith without content, leaving it to the Spirit to blow where it listeth.
Grace and peace to you.
St. Paul reading the Letter to the Athenians Georges DeLatour
For it is in him that all the fullness of God’s nature lives embodied
and in union with him you too are filled with it.
Colossians 2.9
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A woman called this morning and said, Oh, Dr. Lee, I would love to hear you tonight, but there’s a demonstration at the Town Clock against Bush’s talk last night, so could you postpone your talk? I’ve been waking up every morning at about 3 or 4 a.m. and lying in bed and rehearsing this– for the last three weeks! The first week it was kind of fun. I got a big kick out of listening to myself. Second week, ehhh. The third week I thought: will this hour never come? I told her no we were going on as scheduled. I’m very pleased to be here and to welcome you to the Dinner Theater Of the Mind, the first in a series of humanities talks at The Attic that we call One Night University. I got the term from a fellow on the East Coast, who started the Saturday University. It’s a sequence of classes that he books and it’s a huge success, as an adult education program. He’s going to franchise it. So I’ve got the dibs on One Night University.
Continue reading Homer and the Foundation of the Western Humanities
I told you I was worried last time about sticking my neck out but it was such a success, and I’m so grateful for all of your turning again tonight. I’d like to thank Nigel Sanders-Self for doing the PowerPoint display for me. And my granddaughter, Phoebe Zajac, who did the slides for me. And Wolfgang Rosenberg and Alene Smith for doing the promotion and Eric Thiermann for filming both evenings. We’ll make a DVD or a CD from them. So they’ll be available. And thanks to all the rest of you that have made these two evenings a success. I did the math, and I figured if I did this every night, I could make a quarter of a million dollars in a year. But I was worried about running out of things to say, but then I thought, No, I can repeat some of them.
Continue reading Socrates and the Rise of Rational Self-consciousness in Ancient Greece
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