Hi everybody. This blog is more or less intended for Lynda Sexson in relation to an assignment for our "Text and Image" class. It is Carl Sagan relating the murder of Hypatia to the loss of the Library of Alexandria. We may understand his point in relation to our class by seeing Hypatia as Giordano Bruno, or someone who tries to understand infinity but is killed for it. This clip is from Cosmos. I watched an hour of this series last night and within the first 5 minutes Sagan had demonstrated the "mis-en-abyme" idea by holding a mirror on each side of a candle, explaining that there is an "infinite regress" in the infinites of the very small and very large. I see Carl Sagan as being very kindred to the like of the people we have been studying, such as Joyce or Lull or many other writers the Dr. Sexson(s) would deem as "good", in the sense that they do not limit themselves only to what they can see or readily attain in the world but constantly seek other-worldly and even God-like wisdom, always tring to incorporate infinity.
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