Talk:Thomas Browne
Plumes …[edit]
This page now appears to be an untidy mess with differing bold and highlighted text and irrelevant images due to someones deluded interpretation and agenda, or as Browne puts it -'Men are still content to plume themselves with others feathers'.
There are some unwieldy, extraordinarily lengthy quotes on this page, added presumably by an over-enthusiastic admirer of Browne. Nor is it really acceptable that Browne's words are cited in order to support what can only be described as pseudo-spirituality. - —This unsigned comment is by 86.16.239.54 (talk • contribs) .
- I thank you for the material you have added, but obviously disagree about the effective presentations of ideas. I will confess that I am a long time admirer of the wisdom of Browne, as well as that of MANY others, and I believe that I was probably around 5 or 6 years of age when I became very impressed with several of his statements, such as "I could never divide myself from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgement for not agreeing with me in that, from which perhaps within a few days I should dissent myself."
- I will have to be leaving soon, but will note that bolding is an acceptable form of emphasis on pages on the wiki since 2003, and helps quotes and passages many editors find significant stand out, as the pages grow. I hope you continue to contribute more quotes to this page, and others, but not remove material without clear reason for doing so, and usually after dialogue on the matter with others. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 19:19, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
Well, sorry how i said that but[edit]
Kalki, i can see you're a devoted Wikipedian and keen on Browne who has, after all, sparked off lots of visual artists such as Paul Nash, Ann and Patrick Poirier's sculptures of marble brain and eye, here at Norwich etc. Still think the quotes need a little pruning in volume and a uniform font otherwise there is a risk of a highly subjective interpretation being made, same applies to a selection of visual images, an agenda, not necessarily representing Browne objectively may occur, but ho hum, in the big scheme of things. All interpretations could now be defined as being either pre or post W.G.Sebald. Do you know the list of imaginary objects and paintings in miscellaneous tract 12 ? Try finding images to accompany these. (just teasing)
A Picture of the three remarkable Steeples or Towers in Europe built purposely awry and so as they seem falling.
A Snow Piece, of Land and Trees covered with Snow and Ice, and Mountains of Ice floating in the Sea, with Bears, Seals, Foxes, and variety of rare Fowls upon them.
An Elephant dancing upon the Ropes with a Negro Dwarf upon his Back.
Pieces and Draughts in Caricatura, of Princes, Cardinals and famous men; wherein, among others, the Painter hath singularly hit the signatures of a Lion and a Fox in the face of Pope Leo the Tenth.
A noble Quandros or Stone taken out of a Vulture’s Head.
The Skin of a Snake bred out of the Spinal Marrow of a Man.
A neat Crucifix made out of the cross Bone of a Frogs Head. Norwikian (talk) 19:28, 24 March 2015 (UTC)