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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