It's not that your wit and good judgement are not enough, Henry. But
just to be on the safe side, perhaps it's a good idea to cast such
ready-for-death hyperbolees over wide expanses. I hope you don't
mind.
Allen
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Allen
"I always seem to be over-ruling what I say almost as
> soon as I say it."
brilliant, allen... professorial and divine...
shazam! i just realized we're "off list."
we're not sharing this genius...this wit...
allen scult wrote on 6/12/04, 4:16 PM:
> >and just doesn't your paragraph 2 overrule your paragraph 1to wit--,
>
>
> No need Henry. I always seem to be over-ruling what I say almost as
> soon as I say it.
> Though sometimes I can hold off to the next paragraph. That's
> basically why I haven't
> gotten anywhere--no, that's an overstatement; let's say further than
> I have.
>
> Which puts me in the mind of another Nietzschean aphorism: The one
> regarding the true exercise
> of will to power whereby you understand and affirm that the only way
> to have anything is
> to wish for it all to happen again exactly the same way. I always
> considered that overly harsh.
> So I thought of a counteroffer:
>
> I'll take this (the perfect moment alone in the prairie yesterday,
> for example); you take everything else!
>
> Now I'm ready to die.
>
>
>
>
> > the
> >god of will to will is just the old observing one, the representer of
> >the representations... while Baseling professorially, ah, well there's
> >style to that: one gains bicycling past lovelies with parasols, wearing
> >one's brown suit, one's bowler hat...a smile over the right shoulder, a
> >pause and skillful u-turn on the cobblestones. no god can do that. no
> >god could afford to...
>
>
> You're right. God and gods are prone to rather extreme forms of S&m
> to even
> get it up, let alone get it on. I bet a god could do that though
> without it costing him his
> job. But then again, maybe that's the kind of chance we all have to
> take!
>
>
>
>
> >i have never been in turin, but i found a fat wallet in a restroom at
> >the GARE in Balé, many years ago. It belonged to a Portuguese, who
> >bought me my very first Feldschlassen, and gave me my very first
> >Gauloise... the rest is history, and on several levels of description...
>
>
> I'll say! But I'm actually too old to remember my first Gauloise.
> That's
> why I need to consolodate history, my own included into one, maybe
> two moments, which
> stay with me. Everything else either fades into the background to
> possibly return in my dreams,
> or becomes absorbed into one long drawn out present. at least that's
> what I think happens.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Allen
>
>
>
>
>
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>
>
> >
> >amscult@xxxxxxxxx wrote on 6/12/04, 10:43 AM:
> >
> > >
> > > Of course the advantages of the professing profession are
> > > mutlifarious,especially compared to God, the being of whom
> > > is equally unwinnable, but with none of the ancillary perks and
> > > pleasures, especially if your predilections move in the direction of
> > > doing
> > > rather than merely observing.
> > >
> > > But assuming Nietzsche speaks here of the best being-in-the-world
> > > position
> > > for philosophizing, the will to power choices open to the professor
> > > for learning
> > > from what and how he does what he does are potentially much more
> > > fruitful than
> > > simply being God, all things considered.
>
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