POMO MO and Curly

Robert Pirani rpirani at best.com
Mon Oct 11 00:12:42 CDT 1999


At 03:42 PM 10/9/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Why do poets insist on putting philosophers in hell or
>limbo? Grass also insists that the only way to stay out of
>hell is to tell stories. Some philosophers also put
>philosophers in hell. Do any philosophers put Poets in hell? 
>
>TF

Terrance -

Well, Plato banished them from the Republic which for Classical Greek
citizens might've been a kind of living Hell ?

Robert




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