Comments on: Working hours http://earmarks.org/archives/2006/07/25/118 A weblog on early modern culture, teaching English literature, and what else comes to mind Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:22:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: sjoerd http://earmarks.org/archives/2006/07/25/118#comment-10932 sjoerd Tue, 29 Aug 2006 14:15:44 +0000 http://earmarks.org/archives/2006/07/25/118#comment-10932 Yes it is, isn't it? At first I thought that without a tv-guide I wouldn't watch it so often, but actually not knowing what's on involves one in endless channel-swimming. Now I've found that if I just watch the programmes I want to see, such as University Challenge, and leave it switched off the rest of the time I save time to do other things. Still there is a point to what you say; we've gotten so used to background noise (in a broad sense of noise) that reading silently or just listening to music (say Handel, to keep it early modern) demands a kind of concentration that is unusual, don't you think? Yes it is, isn’t it? At first I thought that without a tv-guide I wouldn’t watch it so often, but actually not knowing what’s on involves one in endless channel-swimming.
Now I’ve found that if I just watch the programmes I want to see, such as University Challenge, and leave it switched off the rest of the time I save time to do other things.
Still there is a point to what you say; we’ve gotten so used to background noise (in a broad sense of noise) that reading silently or just listening to music (say Handel, to keep it early modern) demands a kind of concentration that is unusual, don’t you think?

]]> By: Kristine http://earmarks.org/archives/2006/07/25/118#comment-10737 Kristine Wed, 23 Aug 2006 09:30:22 +0000 http://earmarks.org/archives/2006/07/25/118#comment-10737 Ah now, there's a thing: wasting time watching TV. I 've decided to do away with the thing so often I cannot remember. I once managed to keep it locked in a closet for a couple of weeks, until my longing for images got the upper hand. Terrible thing, TV. Ah now, there’s a thing: wasting time watching TV. I ‘ve decided to do away with the thing so often I cannot remember. I once managed to keep it locked in a closet for a couple of weeks, until my longing for images got the upper hand. Terrible thing, TV.

]]> By: sjoerd http://earmarks.org/archives/2006/07/25/118#comment-10726 sjoerd Tue, 22 Aug 2006 15:10:10 +0000 http://earmarks.org/archives/2006/07/25/118#comment-10726 Re: Hobbes he also found time to play tennis (presumably real tennis, nothing as Joan Hunter-Dunn-ish as lawn tennis) and yet he managed to translate Homer and Thucydides, write a history of the Civil war (Behemoth) and leave a few permanent marks on political thought. Of Descartes something similar can be said. Perhaps they had such enviable working hours because they wasted no time watching tv. Re: Hobbes he also found time to play tennis (presumably real tennis, nothing as Joan Hunter-Dunn-ish as lawn tennis) and yet he managed to translate Homer and Thucydides, write a history of the Civil war (Behemoth) and leave a few permanent marks on political thought. Of Descartes something similar can be said.

Perhaps they had such enviable working hours because they wasted no time watching tv.

]]> By: Kristine http://earmarks.org/archives/2006/07/25/118#comment-10621 Kristine Fri, 18 Aug 2006 07:13:24 +0000 http://earmarks.org/archives/2006/07/25/118#comment-10621 Have a good journey to Schiphol, Nuss. I hope you have a great time in Amsterdam! Here's a nice site with <a href="http://www.amsterdamhotspots.nl/" target="new" rel="nofollow">Amsterdam Hotspots</a> to welcome you to the city. Have a good journey to Schiphol, Nuss. I hope you have a great time in Amsterdam! Here’s a nice site with Amsterdam Hotspots to welcome you to the city.

]]> By: Nuss http://earmarks.org/archives/2006/07/25/118#comment-10581 Nuss Wed, 16 Aug 2006 22:37:59 +0000 http://earmarks.org/archives/2006/07/25/118#comment-10581 I know that your blog is of a different nature than mine. Yet as we will both occupy the same land very soon -i'll be in Amsterdam shortly- I think you will find my blog to be of interest. I will intertwine academia, awe, the unsuspected and life into one insane blog. :) The Nuss I know that your blog is of a different nature than mine. Yet as we will both occupy the same land very soon -i’ll be in Amsterdam shortly- I think you will find my blog to be of interest.

I will intertwine academia, awe, the unsuspected and life into one insane blog.

:)

The Nuss

]]> By: Helmer http://earmarks.org/archives/2006/07/25/118#comment-9630 Helmer Tue, 25 Jul 2006 18:31:35 +0000 http://earmarks.org/archives/2006/07/25/118#comment-9630 Wonderful news! Did you know Descartes used to spend the mornings in bed, engaged in 'systematic meditations'? Yeah right, an American would say. Four hours a day is apparently enough to produce some memorable works... Wonderful news! Did you know Descartes used to spend the mornings in bed, engaged in ’systematic meditations’? Yeah right, an American would say. Four hours a day is apparently enough to produce some memorable works…

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