Nietzsche in Miami

Terrance lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Thu Jan 4 06:26:27 CST 2001


Yes, the death of a creative god. Big problem, big, like god
created Man, free to stand and free to fall, free to serve,
free to name the universe, free will, now that's a big one,
a paradox, but not free to create the sun, Benny, piss on
it, and suppose Benny were God and not Job or some fire
thief or some descendent of these, god tossing thunderbolts, 

"God is supposed to be more positive, instead of throwing
thunderbolts all the time. Carefully he pointed his finger.
'Dewey Gland. Sing them that Algerian pacifist song.' 
Profane flopped over on his back, blinking up into the
snow."

Why do I get the feeling that no one gives a dead rat's ass
about the novel V.? 
In fact, I think it is odd that even professional critics
treat GR as the only book (well they also turn CL49 to their
purpose) worthy of debate. Why argue about the opening of GR
again? We might come closer to some, well I don't think
consensus is what we want her anyway, but we might come
closer to, well, understanding the other guy's
interpretation a little better if we take on V. with half
the energy we exhaust on these meta, meta, meta in Miami she
was Cuban with dark black eyes and she taught me how to
tango and we're gunna get married in chicago....

"Has the world become infinite for us all over again,
inasmuch as we cannot reject the possibility that it may
include infinite interpretations." 

					--Nietzsche, BG&E


This method of watching, or rather provoking, a conflict of
assertions, not for the purpose of deciding in favor of one
or the other side, but of investigating whether 
the object of controversy is not perhaps a deceptive
appearance which each vainly strives to grasp, and in regard
to which, even if there were no opposition to be overcome,
neither can arrive at any result, --this procedure, I say,
may be entitled the SKEPTICAL METHOD. It is altogether
different from Skepticism-- a principle of technical and
scientific ignorance, which undermines the foundations of
all knowledge, and strives in all possible ways to destroy
its reliability and steadfastness. For the skeptical method
aims at certainty. It seeks to discover the point of
misunderstanding in the case of disputes which are sincerely
and competently conducted by both sides. 

                                                --Kant,
Critique of Pure Reason



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