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Wednesday, 10 December 2025

8th Koraniyule 2025 with Hugh Selwyn Mauberley


The ABC of Reading by Ezra Pound


4:00  Reading begins.

5:00  Swindling classes

6:00  The Rectification of Names by Confucius

9:00  People who talk nonsense

10:00  Phatic

11:00  Social skills and context

13:00  To teach, move or delight; to obscure, bamboozle or bore.

14:00  Infant mewling

15:00  Secular Koranism

17:00  Language and neologisms

19:00  Playground taunts

20:00  English is an imperial and  global language.

21:00  Language laziness and  being monoglot

22:00  Language is but a code.

23:00  Correct English

24:00  Red pill, black pill, white  pill, blue pill

26:00  Not speaking the lingo

27:00  White South Africans

28:00  Imperial is a cultural exchange.

Language is a badge of identity.

30:00  Europeans no longer bother learning their own languages properly.

33:00  Spoken and written language

34:00  Chinese

35:00  The written word

Written revelation

36:00  The law cannot exist without the written word.

37:00  The New Testament was in Koine Greek.

38:00  Paul spoke Greek and Hebrew.

Jefferson Bible

40:00  Paul's marketing target and strategy

41:00  Constantine's conversion to Christianity

42:00  Julian the Apostate

43:00  Prose and poetry

46:00  Poetry is artistic language.

47:00  Chaucer and Shakespeare

49:00  Theory and Practice

51:00  Beowulf

53:00  A novel made up of text messages of the characters to each other

Email

56:00  Vows of monastic silence

57:00  Social media platforms

58:00  AI

Grok

1:00:00   A human will plug the plug on AI.

1:02:00  AI as a tool of government

1:03:00  AI boyfriends and girlfriends

1:04:00  Luddites and Luddism

1:06:00  Sam Altman

1:08:00  The thoughtful thought-criminal

1:09:00  Ezra Pound

1:16:00  Eustace Mullins

1:17:00  Wife of Bath's Tale

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8th Koraniyule 2025 with Hugh Selwyn Mauberley

The ABC of Reading by Ezra Pound https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Pound 4:00  Reading begins. 5:00  Swindling classes 6:00  The Rectificat...