Синтезег

Когда мольеровскому г-ну Жордену сказали, что он говорит прозой, это была грубая лесть. Дело в том, что тексты бывают худ.прозаические, худ.стихотворные, философско-богословские, научно-технические, публицистические, разговорные.

Так вот, г-н Жорден конечно же пользовался разговорным, а не прозаическим форматом! А вот назвать eгo прозаиком - это типичный публицистический прием, за умелое пользование такого рода приемами публицистам деньги платят.

Еще один прием состоит в том, что публицист делает вид, будто его публицистический формат - единственный, все остальные значения не имеют. Тогда получaется, что тексты делятся просто на "интеллектуальные", "талантливые" - и "тупые", "бездарные".

Последняя статья shargunovа - типичный пример публицистики с легкой претензией на анализ худ.текста. В отличие от типичного РЖиста, автор прекрасно понимает, что такое худ.текст и с чем его едят. Cкорее всего, он сознательно имитирует чадаевского Винстона Сергеевича Хручерчeва.

По чадаевской деалектеге получается, что Хрущева и Черчилля можно "синтезировать" в одно осмысленное целое. Так почему бы не "синтезировать" Наполеона, Кутузова, кросавчега и медведа?

-- У Путина есть все шансы стать историческим лидером. Синтезом Наполеона и Кутузова, кросавчега и медведа.

-- An Eagle was soaring through the air when suddenly it heard the whizz of an Arrow, and felt itself wounded to death. Slowly it fluttered down to the earth, with its life-blood pouring out of it. Looking down upon the Arrow with which it had been pierced, it found that the shaft of the Arrow had been feathered with one of its own plumes. "Alas!" it cried, as it died,

"We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction."

Постановление

-- Слушали: Доклад т.ЦепногоПса (тм).
Постановили: Уволить т.ЦепногоПса (тм) за проф.непригодностью. Нам такое обоняние не нужно!

-- Куваев о 10 енотах

Миру - мир!

-- Насралла заявил, что Хизбалла уже перевооружилась после ливанской войны, они располагают 20К ракет. Ни о каком разоружении не может быть и речи. Скорее всего, Насралла не блефует.

GU. Brian Whitaker. We still have 20,000 rockets, says Nasrallah

In a defiant "victory" speech in a bombed-out suburb of Beirut, the Hizbullah leader, Hassan Nasrallah, said yesterday his organisation had recovered from its month-long war with Israel and now possessed more than 20,000 rockets.

Although Mr Nasrallah's latest claim is impossible to verify, he has a reputation for not bluffing. Flanked by bodyguards and with only his head visible above a protective screen labelled Victory Festival 2006, he said his guerrillas would never surrender their weapons. "No army in the world will be able to make us drop the weapons from our hands."

-- http://www.jerusalemonline.com/newyear.asp

-- Британские борцы с "мусульманскими экстремизмом"

Бенедикт XVI об исламе

Вот они, отрывки из злополучной лекции Бенедикта XVI, вызвавшей международный скандал. С некоторым запозданием подготовил, наконец, (более-менее) детальный разбор - по-английски. Этот коммент только что появился на сайте д-ра Коула juancole.com, см. линк в английском блоге.

2006-09-18 On Benedict XVI's lecture

Benedict XVI. The Best of Greek Thought Is "An Integral Part of Christian Faith"

I read the edition by Professor Theodore Khoury (Münster) of part of the dialogue carried on - perhaps in 1391 in the winter barracks near Ankara - by the erudite Byzantine emperor Manuel II Paleologus and an educated Persian on the subject of Christianity and Islam, and the truth of both. It was probably the emperor himself who set down this dialogue, during the siege of Constantinople between 1394 and 1402; and this would explain why his arguments are given in greater detail than the responses of the learned Persian.

In the seventh conversation-controversy, edited by Professor Khoury, the emperor touches on the theme of the jihad (holy war). The emperor must have known that surah 2, 256 reads: "There is no compulsion in religion". It is one of the suras of the early period, when Mohammed was still powerless and under threaten. But naturally the emperor also knew the instructions, developed later and recorded in the Qur’an, concerning holy war. Without decending to details, such as the difference in treatment accorded to those who have the "Book" and the "infidels", he turns to his interlocutor somewhat brusquely with the central question on the relationship between religion and violence in general, in these words: "Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached". The emperor goes on to explain in detail the reasons why spreading the faith through violence is something unreasonable.

The decisive statement in this argument against violent conversion is this: not to act in accordance with reason is contrary to God’s nature. The editor, Theodore Khoury, observes: For the emperor, as a Byzantine shaped by Greek philosophy, this statement is self-evident. But for Muslim teaching, God is absolutely transcendent. His will is not bound up with any of our categories, even that of rationality...

"Not to act reasonably (with 'logos') is contrary to the nature of God", said Manuel II, according to his Christian understanding of God, in response to his Persian interlocutor. It is to this great “logos,” to this breadth of reason, that we invite our partners in the dialogue of cultures. To rediscover it constantly is the great task of the university.