Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 13:54:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: Tom Blancato <tblan-AT-telerama.lm.com>
Subject: Re: thinking German


On Tue, 6 Aug 1996 paul.murphy-AT-utoronto.ca wrote:

> Dr. Michael Eldred's aside concerning the inherent superiority of the 
> German language, like Heidegger's similar claim in the Spiegel interview, 
> made me chuckle. Oh, these impure, mongrel languages, alienated from the 
> pristine pre-lapsarian, pre-Babel Greek source by those bastard Romans, 
> henceforth consigned to errancy and oblivion. Let us all solemnly surrender 
> this ugly, degrading tongue and commence thinking in the Herrensprache, since,
> of course, die Sprache spricht (Deutsch). Reminds me of the passages from 
> Benjamin's _Trauerspielbuch_ wherein he cites Baroque 
> theologians of language, who insisted that Adam and Eve spoke German. 
> Cheers,
> Paul N. Murphy
> 

<chuckle indeed> Thanks for the laugh. Maybe they spoke sign language...

Tom B.


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