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

Terrance F. Flaherty Lycidas at worldnet.att.net
Wed Dec 15 14:59:24 CST 1999



rj wrote:
> 
> 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?
> 
> best
> 
> ~~~ 'Tis the good reader that makes the good book. ~~~
>                               Ralph Waldo Emerson


What man's bitter irony?



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