Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 23:57:27 -0400 (EDT)
To: bhaskar-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
Subject: Re: BHA: RB wins first prize in philosophy competition



>"With the last gasp of Romanticism, the quelling of its florid uprising
>against the vapid formalism of one strain of the Enlightenment, the dimming
>of its yearning for the imagined grandeur of the archaic, and the dashing of
>its too sanguine hopes for a revitalized, fulfilled humanity, the horror of
>its more lasting, more Gothic legacy has settled in, distributed and diffused
>enough, to be sure, that lugubriousness is recognizable only as languor, or
>as a certain sardonic laconicism disguising itself in a new sanctification of
>the destructive instincts, a new genius for displacing cultural reifications
>in the interminable shell game of the analysis of the human psyche, where
>nothing remains sacred."
>
>Speaking of shell games, see if you can figure out the subject of that
>sentence.

The horror, the horror!

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