Compliments of the New Year. We hope that 2012 will be another
fruitful year of academic interrogations. My best to you and your family.
Kind regards
Jaki
On 1 January 2012 03:33, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net
<mailto:ablunden@mira.net>> wrote:
Happy New Year to everyone on xmca.
2012 marks 50 years since the publication of the first English
language version of "Thinking and Speech" in 1962, first published
in Russian 28 years before. How fruitful this book has been, with
the meaning of its words still being subject to interrogation and
debate to this very day.
A wonderful tree opposite my window, where I work, was cut down a
couple of months ago, as part of the intensive development now
taking place in this little area of Melbourne, which is seeing a
lot of trees being cut down, generally quite senselessly, while
apartments, shops and small factories are built. Last night we
witnessed a side benefit of the loss of our beloved tree, when we
found that we now had an unobstructed view of the sky above the
City and could enjoy a clear view of the New Year's Eve fireworks
display. Alas not such a good view that we could also watch the
fire that the fireworks set off in the spire of the Arts Centre,
but hey! you can't have everything.
Wishing everyone a great 2012, and let us hope that the Arab
Spring sets off a spring across the whole world.
Andy
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Book: http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=227&pid=34857
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