Happiness is most like a "moment of grace"

[Mark Kohut]

This one, about redcomrad's Aristotelian virtu', is for Alice whereever she 
is...


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From: redcomrad <redcomrad at zoho.com>
Cc: P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thu, January 27, 2011 6:27:09 PM
Subject: Re: Happiness is most like a "moment of grace"


Epistemology is a useful word; I like it as much as I loathe that trite and worn 
out phrae "critical thinking." 


Nope, general consumption has a kink in its line and its neck, a form of moral 
and intellectual whip lash it suffered sometime around the turn of the last 
century. 

 
Nothing wrong with the shovels they was given to dig with, but digging in a 
garden paradise has got nothin on fallen down a hill after fetching water. 
Somthing about the cracked crown that makes the fruit taste sweeter even if it 
does got a worm in it. The worm in it, why, he gets murdered when he's bit into, 
but his better halves go their seperate ways, not so with the grand parents with 
the cracked crowns. When Death do them part with a murder, one is got to fall 
further than bottom. Cause bottom's head could be a devil of thing to get off, 
but that's comedy even when it aint devine. So goes the ballad of the 
joakin jesus. Thots ain't tools, so the maxim teaches. Tools is human extension 
not humans but extensions of Being, like that High Digger his own self with his 
Hammer.  
 

---- On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 16:21:35 -0500 Michael Bailey 
<michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote ---- 



redcomrad wrote: 
>> 
>
>> Epistemological questions and the problems of absolute knowledge raised by 
>
>love that word, "epistemology" 
>
>> Eden, use our own birth cords to connect back to the grand mother of all 
>> mothers, Eve in Edenville, but we risk perdition. 
>
>really? thought that omphaloskepsis was approved for general 
>consumption, if not de rigeur? 
>
>> It requires, as N.O. Brown 
>> argues in Love's Body, that the Sons and Brothers kill the father, get rid 
>> of the family, property, and the state, then establish liberty, equality, 
>> fraternity. 
>
>some program. why do they always have to start by killing somebody? 
>is there something wrong with the tools they are thinking with, or are 
>they just tools themselves? 
>


      
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