Autumn Has Come.

Or is at least arriving soon. These are some of the berries appearing around campus on the various trees. One of the lovely things about living on campus is that they have really tried to make it look pretty for the students living there, planting many-a-tree and making many-a-lake making it a very pretty place to live…and therefore a lot of Autumnal photographs are a-coming!

Today, as ever, was spent travelling. Gotta love the bus service right? This week’s lecture was entitled ‘Shamlet, the senses and scepticism’…where we talked about the senses within Shakespeare’s plays – mainly about the eyes and the ears.

Now all knowledge makes its way into us through the senses... Knowledge begins through them and is resolved through them […] After all, we would know no more than a stone, if we did not know that there is sound, smell, light, taste...weight, softness, hardness, color..."
Yet: “there is no existence that is constant, either of our being or of that of objects. And we, and our judgment, and all mortal things go on flowing and rolling unceasingly. Thus nothing certain can be established about one thing by another, both the judging and the judged being in continual change and motion.
(Montaigne, Apology for Raymond Sebond, 1575-80)

Very interesting, especially when you look at the speeches of Hamlet. For example Act III, Scene 4
HAMLET: Here is your husband, like a mildew'd ear
Blasting his wholesome brother. Have you eyes? […]
Eyes without feeling, feeling without sight,
Ears without hands or eyes, smelling sans all,
Or but a sickly part of one true sense
Could not so mope.