Soul Food in Memphis
June 13, 2007
Rumors of my being seen in Beale Street checking out the local Blues cats are true. I managed to hear Anne Sophie von Otter in a classic rendition of Richard Strauss' "Groovin' and Movin' with the Presbyterians" last night. Brought tears to me eyes, it did!
Trotter Trueman, on the hand, stiff and straightlaced, was givin some sort of "talk" on something called "Sacra Doctrina" in the seventeenth century! Like a freight train coming down the tracks, it was. He went on about how we need to understand "good and necessary consequence" in the first chapter of the Confession as meaning more than just a bunch of Aristotelian (Ramist) logical inferences. You had to go and read the 50,000 books these guys had in their library and understand the wideness of their worldview. Or something like that! Seriously, it was only nine o'clock in the morning and not a hint of blues in the talk. You must get the tape! I'll post "how" later in the day. Got to get back to Beale street.
Trotter Trueman, on the hand, stiff and straightlaced, was givin some sort of "talk" on something called "Sacra Doctrina" in the seventeenth century! Like a freight train coming down the tracks, it was. He went on about how we need to understand "good and necessary consequence" in the first chapter of the Confession as meaning more than just a bunch of Aristotelian (Ramist) logical inferences. You had to go and read the 50,000 books these guys had in their library and understand the wideness of their worldview. Or something like that! Seriously, it was only nine o'clock in the morning and not a hint of blues in the talk. You must get the tape! I'll post "how" later in the day. Got to get back to Beale street.
