Footnotes2Plato

“The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.”
–Alfred North Whitehead

Tag: Walt Whitman

  • What is the grass?: Response to Arthur Haswell’s Pan-Pathism

    When I turn away from world-weariness, the child in me finds room to wonder,  What is the grass? Is it the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven? Is it a scented gift designedly dropped by God?  Or, is it the beautiful uncut hair of graves? Walt Whitman was a cosmic optimist, but he was not…

  • America and Me (for Ginsberg and Whitman)

    America and Me (for Ginsberg and Whitman)

    “ “America and Me (for Ginsberg and Whitman)” by Matthew D. Segall Originally performed December 2nd, 2017 at CIIS in San Francisco. America, you’ve given me everything and now you are nothing. America 21 trillion 114 billion dollars in debt April 3rd 2018. I no longer own my own mind. America when will we end…

  • Images of Earth and Eros in Walt Whitman’s Poetry

    Images of Earth and Eros in Walt Whitman’s Poetry A Presentation by Matthew D. Segall at the 2013 Cosmology of Love Conference   Come, said the Muse,  Sing me a song no poet yet has chanted,  Sing me the universal.    In this broad earth of ours, Amid the measureless grossness and the slag, Enclosed and…