Wolfmann....given his real estate "holdings''

Dave Monroe against.the.dave at gmail.com
Tue Aug 18 15:45:16 CDT 2009


On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Mark Kohut<markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> "man is a wolf to man." First attested in Plautus' Asinaria ("lupus est homo homini"), the sentence was drawn on by Thomas Hobbes when he wrote "Man to Man is an arrant Wolfe" in the opening line of the De cive, Epistola dedicatoria section of Leviathan as a concise expression of his view of human nature.
>
> We know TRP has alluded to Hobbes' "nasty, brutish and short".

Thanks!  And see as well, e.g., ...

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/series/scooby-doo/scooby-doo-and-howling-wolfman.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmnMubqJxnI




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