Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 12:25:51 +0200
Subject: Re: Love


Cologne 23-Oct-2002

allen scult schrieb Tue, 22 Oct 2002 14:37:41 -0500:

> Read in Jean-Luc Nancy:
>
> You can't have thinking without love.  Philosophy thinks love.
>
> Then I go on a bike ride in the country,
> See two lovers,
> first locked in tight embrace,
> then separated just enough to look
> into one another's eyes
> with the untmost of serious intentionality,
> making meaning of the world
> to one another
> as if for the first time.
>
> Of course, philosophy knows better.
> That's not even a love worth speaking about,
> let alone for the first time
> (not to deny its other pleasures).
>
> If I ever look into someone's eyes again
> like that,
> get me out of the bar immediately,
> take me home.
>
> Give me some Montaigne,
> and put me to bed.
>
> Allen
> --
>   Allen Scult                                   Dept. of Philosophy
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Which brings me, like Uncle Toby, straight back to my hobby horse:

In this sweet exchange of lovers
are traded -- moments or Augenblicke?

and to Friedrich Hoelderlin's verse:

Wer das Tiefste gedacht,
Liebt das Lebendigste.

(The thinker of the deepest thoughts,
Loves what is most lively.)

Yeah, Fred, in the end it's only rock 'n' roll.

Michael
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