Cynic/Dog

Dave Monroe against.the.dave at gmail.com
Wed Nov 28 08:56:35 CST 2007


On 11/28/07, James Kyllo <jkyllo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Puts me in mind of the rather fine Machado de Assis novel "Philosopher or Dog?"
>
> http://www.bloomsbury.com/BookCatalog/ProductItem.asp?S=&sku=774131
>
> On Nov 27, 2007 4:45 PM,  <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

Not to mention ...

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0701&msg=114337



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