GRGR (15): Good & Evil (was Enzian...)

rj rjackson at mail.usyd.edu.au
Wed Dec 15 14:29:34 CST 1999


TF
> In any
> event, Pointy says, "It all comes down, as it must, to the
> desires of individual MEN (my caps)....It's work, that all
> it is, and there's no room for any extra human
> anxieties--they only weaken, effeminize the will: a man
> either indulges them, or fights to win, und so weiter." 
> 
> "und so weiter" allies Pointy with Blicero. 

Because it's a German phrase? Pointy doesn't know Blicero at all. The
tag is just the man's bitter irony, isn't it? 

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