Quote of the Day

[rich]

my quote of the day is this headline I saw today:

"Michael Chabon Examines His Manhood"

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Page <page at quesnelbc.com> wrote:
> Just finished reading a book by one of my ethics professors. He
> distinguishes know how from know whether. Know how is our ability to act.
> Know whether is the wisdom that tells us whether we ought to act. As Plato
> pointed out a few weeks ago, there are many more ways to go wrong than there
> are ways to go right.
>
> This leads the ethics professor to give the following advice, "Don't do
> something!" "Stand there!" Dovetails nicely with Dave's quote below.
>
> Page
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Monroe"
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> To: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 6:44 AM
> Subject: Quote of the Day
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>> "The old saying 'Don't just talk, do something!' is one of the most
>> stupid things one can say, even measured by the low standards of
>> common sense." --Slavoj Zizek, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce (2009)
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>> http://www.versobooks.com/books/tuvwxyz/xyz-titles/zizek_s_first_as_tragedy.shtml
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