In rewatching these presentations from the 2021 SAT Conference, this one from Carolan was a stand-out. It was crafted and delivered with professionalism and his revelations (which were new to me) seem to represent a tremendous contribution to our movement. The best part is how nonchalant Carolan is about his "happy accident" in finding one of, if not THE main source for Shakespeare's St. Crispin's Day Speech. He tells us he memorized the speech while helping his daughter with a school assignment two plus decades ago, and later this memorized text and patterns of repetition, alliteration and mirroring stuck with him. In my "cartoon bubble" I imagine his capable mind forming a latent routine which would be applied against the stream of data being processed into the future as a sort of analog algorithm. He happened to find a 14th century French romantic poem; "William of Palerne", and as he read it, the algorithm was satisfied and fired alerts to help him identify a 14-line section of the earlier poem which was "borrowed", line-by-line by the author, and massaged to fit his ends. Remarkable.
The use of alliteration as unifying pattern is fascinating. Auden used it in The Age of Anxiety: For the others, like me, there is only the flash Of negative knowledge, the night when, drunk, one Staggers to the bathroom and stares in the glass To meet one’s madness, when what mother said seems Such darling rubbish and the decent advice Of the liberal weeklies as lost an art As peasant pottery, for plainly it is not.
Thank you for an excellent presentation!
In rewatching these presentations from the 2021 SAT Conference, this one from Carolan was a stand-out. It was crafted and delivered with professionalism and his revelations (which were new to me) seem to represent a tremendous contribution to our movement. The best part is how nonchalant Carolan is about his "happy accident" in finding one of, if not THE main source for Shakespeare's St. Crispin's Day Speech. He tells us he memorized the speech while helping his daughter with a school assignment two plus decades ago, and later this memorized text and patterns of repetition, alliteration and mirroring stuck with him. In my "cartoon bubble" I imagine his capable mind forming a latent routine which would be applied against the stream of data being processed into the future as a sort of analog algorithm. He happened to find a 14th century French romantic poem; "William of Palerne", and as he read it, the algorithm was satisfied and fired alerts to help him identify a 14-line section of the earlier poem which was "borrowed", line-by-line by the author, and massaged to fit his ends. Remarkable.
Thank you for the kind words - Chris Carolan
The use of alliteration as unifying pattern is fascinating. Auden used it in The Age of Anxiety:
For the others, like me, there is only the flash
Of negative knowledge, the night when, drunk, one Staggers to the bathroom and stares in the glass
To meet one’s madness, when what mother said seems Such darling rubbish and the decent advice
Of the liberal weeklies as lost an art
As peasant pottery, for plainly it is not.