Comments on: The Principles of Uncertainty http://www.frillyshirt.org/2008/03/14/the-principles-of-uncertainty/ Thoughts on Art, Nature, the Fine and the Silly by Sir Frederick Chook, a Colonial Dilettante and Romantic Fop. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:42:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5 by: FLB http://www.frillyshirt.org/2008/03/14/the-principles-of-uncertainty/#comment-14245 Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:21:39 +0800 http://www.frillyshirt.org/2008/03/14/the-principles-of-uncertainty/#comment-14245 There are the 19th C. scientists, I suppose. Darwin, Hooker and the like? There are the 19th C. scientists, I suppose. Darwin, Hooker and the like?

]]> by: Sir Frederick Chook http://www.frillyshirt.org/2008/03/14/the-principles-of-uncertainty/#comment-14304 Sat, 15 Mar 2008 21:40:05 +0800 http://www.frillyshirt.org/2008/03/14/the-principles-of-uncertainty/#comment-14304 And engineers and generals and all sorts of stuffy types. But, you know, I've often heard them described in terms of their pride, or such - as a metaphor for the ascendancy of the middle classes. So we're remembering them differently to how they'd think of themselves... or perhaps just to how our grandparents remembered them. Perhaps we sentimentalise the Victorians because we're distant enough not to have to react against them. I'm just speculating here, natch, brainprodded by Kalman and Zadie Smith. And engineers and generals and all sorts of stuffy types. But, you know, I’ve often heard them described in terms of their pride, or such - as a metaphor for the ascendancy of the middle classes. So we’re remembering them differently to how they’d think of themselves… or perhaps just to how our grandparents remembered them. Perhaps we sentimentalise the Victorians because we’re distant enough not to have to react against them.

I’m just speculating here, natch, brainprodded by Kalman and Zadie Smith.

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