pomo
Terrance
lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Mon Dec 4 05:33:31 CST 2000
Dave Monroe wrote:
And do keep in mind, it's ALL jargon, "plot," "character,"
"theme," "setting,"
> "genre," "literature," you name it ...
Words! And what else are these words for but to wonder at
this chameleon, Man, who was said by Asclepius of Athens
able to transform his own nature owing to his mutability,
and who is symbolized in the mysteries as Prometheus?
Heretics, St. Augustine claimed, are given to us so that we
might not remain in infancy.
Have no sympathy for the advocate of the Devil, he is a fool
and as Shakespeare has taught, the fool is no more mad than
the Kings he plays for.
Lear's Fool
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