Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 20:20:43 -0600
From: allen scult <allen.scult-AT-drake.edu>
Subject: Re: "unknown quote" with accompanying ecstatic rave


At 5:51 PM -0800 1/27/02, Kenneth Johnson wrote:
>or, allen, it occurs me rhetorically to ask: are you searching for
>interpretations of 'the most real' as it is? or are you striving only after
>those interpretations of the most real that can somehow be made to fit
>somewhere within the half finished jigsaw of your psyche, of your
>psychology?
>
>or, phrased slightly different, do you try to fit yourself in to the most
>real as it is or do you try to make the most real fit in to you as you
>desire it.
>
>-k
>
>either


It occurs to me rhetorically to answer, not only either, or even 
both, but all of the above, especially desire.  How could the most 
real not fit with my desire, or , mejor dicho, how could (my) desire 
not somehow fit with,or at least be evoked by, the most real?  The 
question of how desire, especially desire for pleasure "fits" with 
the most real is very definitely a rhetorical question.  or I should 
say, a question of rhetoric. That is, to say things in a way which 
fits desire to the most real so as to give pleasure.  That's as close 
to the Idea as we get.  Socrates' second speech to Phaedrus.

Must go now.  Sorry for the criss-cross, mis-apropos etc.

Allen
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