EXCERPT FROM 'This is the Beat Generation' BY JOHN CLENNON HOLMES

Any attempt to label an entire generation is unrewarding, and yet the generation which went through the last war [WWII], or at least could get a drink easily once it was over, seems to possess a uniform, general quality which demands an adjective ... The origins of the word 'beat' are obscure, but the meaning is only too clear to most Americans. More than mere weariness, it implies the feeling of having been used, of being raw. It involves a sort of nakedness of mind, and, ultimately, of soul; a feeling of being reduced to the bedrock of consciousness. In short, it means being undramatically pushed up against the wall of oneself. A man is beat whenever he goes for broke and wagers the sum of his resources on a single number; and the young generation has done that continually from early youth.

Friday, May 21, 2010

PUBLICATION JUBILATION!

About a week ago I got an email from an graduate-level, peer-reviewed, online journal telling me:

Congratulations! Your article "Otto in the Chinese Room" has been accepted
pending revisions for publication in Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science.

Then this morning, I fired up Mail on my MacBook to find an email reading in part as follows:

I am contacting you because we have decided to publish a select group of
papers from the conference. In fact, we are starting an online undergraduate
philosophy journal that will publish the top 20 papers or so from the conference. Yours in one that we would like to publish in this journal.

Considering there were about 150 articles presented at the conference, I am ecstatic about this development!
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1 comment:

  1. Philip Pawlett JacksonJuly 16, 2010 at 10:12 PM

    Hey, I got here from your comment on Andy's. Great to hear you're doing well.

    Phil.

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