I like your example of the deep roots of the Quaker aversion to haggling, since I was similarly frustrated with Lefebvre's lack of interest in where these "liberal" beliefs come from. The other day I chanced upon a book called The Spiritual Mandela on the impact of the faith he was taught by Methodist missionaries in childhood. I'm fascinated by the history of the various non-conformist Protestant churches and sects.
"I wanted to complain about the use of Euclid to denote the disenchanted and prosaic. Geometry is beautiful." Perhaps the poet is a fan of non-Euclidean geometry, with its twisty-turny-curvy spaces. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Euclidean_geometry
I have Lefevbre and Rosenblatt in my near-term reading queue, I appreciate this introduction and context.
I like your example of the deep roots of the Quaker aversion to haggling, since I was similarly frustrated with Lefebvre's lack of interest in where these "liberal" beliefs come from. The other day I chanced upon a book called The Spiritual Mandela on the impact of the faith he was taught by Methodist missionaries in childhood. I'm fascinated by the history of the various non-conformist Protestant churches and sects.
"I wanted to complain about the use of Euclid to denote the disenchanted and prosaic. Geometry is beautiful." Perhaps the poet is a fan of non-Euclidean geometry, with its twisty-turny-curvy spaces. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Euclidean_geometry
I don't know about Auden, but I certainly am! I still have a crocheted hyperbolic surface lying around somewhere...