Hegel's laughing

[KXX4493553 at aol.com]

No shiiii, no shinola. Do you know that Hegel often laughed during his 
lectures? Laughin' attacks, without any control? Because of his silly 
audience? Don't think so. Or perhaps, a part of the explanation. Why didn't 
he write a "phenomenology of laughing"? 'cause he was not able to. What was 
his laughing? Mad? Sardonic? Cynic? Sarcastic? All of this, and nothing. It 
was dialectic laughing. The Geist (ghost, spirit, mind) - all of that is in 
this word. 

And i remember the constant feeling of absurdity and "laugh nihilism" as I 
called it twenty years ago when I first read GR. Reading GR I was laughing 
all the time. This Hegelian laughing. When I come back to shit & shinola, 
than there was of course the constant feeling of LMA - Leckt mich (am) Arsch, 
get stuffed. But laughing is the only weapon every ruling class fears, every 
authority, every state, every capitalist - whatever. There's nothing left to 
loose (definition of freedom). - and a feeling of complete liberation - in 
the act of  reading. It was the only time in my life when I had this feeling 
while I was a reading. Ah yes - and the second time in the "Baby Igor"-scene 
in Crying lot. But there laughing is more a cry, hysterical, you cannot stop. 
The step before Hegelian laughing - while reading GR.
kwp