Cynic/Dog

[Dave Monroe]

On 11/27/07, robinlandseadel at comcast.net <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:

> In something I just re-posted,  I just ran across:
>
>         The precise source of the term "Cynic" is,
>         however, less important than the wholehearted
>         appropriation of it. The first Cynics, beginning
>         most clearly with Diogenes of Sinope, embraced
>         their title: they barked at those who displeased
>         them, spurned Athenian etiquette, and lived from
>         nature. In other words, what may have originated
>         as a disparaging label became the designation of
>         a philosophical vocation.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/2cpuvy
>
> And I remember the hallowed place Dogs have in TRPV's [1]
> writings. . . .
>
> . . . .what hallowed skein of Dogs. . . .

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