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Ancient Philosophy Paper Part I 10/20/2002f |
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"Nathan March, your mission should you choose to accept it is to write a 5 page paper for your Ancient Philosophy Class. Your first objective is to identify a topic related to one of the pre-Socratic philosophers then adventure deep into the bowels of your local university library and recover from the lost dusty tombs of archived knowledge two scholary articles. This is no simple task. The faint of heart, the weak, and the less than noble minded should turn away. This task, as you shall soon find out is only slightly more enjoyable than giving blood or having a root canal. Do you accept?!?"
"I humble throw myself at the Mercy of God, and with the help of my brethren and the Holy Spirit endeavor to do such things as Divine Providence and the requirements of this class require for the Holy Formation of the Priesthood of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!" I replied as I packed my backpack with pens, provisions, and camera. Seems I take my Nikon everywhere. These images should show the severity of the task. |
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Everytime I see the sign out in front of the library I snicker.. "John Denver Library" I think as I quitely hum "Thank God I'm a Country Boy" or some such Denver classic. I don't know who this "John Mullen" guy is but he's obviously not as famous at Mr. Denver and perhaps CUA should take into consideration my suggestions for building names.
Anyway, first stop floor 2 for the Humanities reading room and electronic journal search. I tried locating some papers in the Lustrum philosophy bibliography- mais je ne parles pas francais! It was all French and I couldn't figure out how to find an article after looking it up in there anyway. Pauvre Monsieur March. So off to the world of computers and technology and things more familar. First I tried JSTOR through the Aladin system. It was good and I could actually download a few articles right from there in pdf format. But as you can see it required a more specific top than "Heraclitus". I narrowed my search to "Heraclitus AND Death". Maybe my mind is focused on Halloween and Dan Beeman's Walmart Plug-In Pumpkin on floor 3 back at the seminary. JSTOR seemed rather limited, but the Philosopher's Index provided me with count them: one, TWO, articles on Heraclitus and Death. |
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Once I identified two articles via Aladin, I had to then locate them in the vasty catacombs of "The Stacks." The Stacks are a massive multilevel labyrinth of bookshelves worth of ole Deadalus himself. The halls are dark, damp, dusty, and littered with the remains of long dead seminarians who have tread the path before to their untimely doom. Recently during library renovations the skeleton of a 3rd century Neander-seminarius Man was found buried cerimonously still clutching his Ancient Philosophy book- he must have never found a paper topic! Some remains still exist in various reading rooms, from as early as the 4th century and this other one from last semester. |
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After locating my articles in the Stacks and having succesfully navigated my way back out to civilization- thanks bread crumbs and spool of yarn! I headed down to the second floor state of the art copywrite infringement center. As you can see these are card operated beasts which demand a temple sacrfice of $0.10 per copy. Unfortuneatly today the Money Changers were malfunctioning and many a poor pilgrim was stranded at the oracle helpless and wondering how to get their assignments done for Monday. Being the nice seminarian that I am, I lent my ample funds to a couple of cute girls from my Philosophy of Human Nature class. Despite not wearing a tie, they were able to recognize me and my working CUA copy card.
So I found my articles and have completed step #1. Now it is off to my room to decipher what I have found and prepare a paper for Friday. On the way out I stoped by the CUA devotional favorite statue of "Our Lady of the Bouncing Baby Buddah Jesus" At least that I what I think it is. It must be Christian- Right?!? Anway, "Pray for me Mother". |
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