Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 14:26:55 -0600
From: allen scult <allen.scult-AT-drake.edu>
Subject: Re: Some you Gewinn and Some You Lose.


>In a message dated 10/12/2003 18:20:30 GMT Standard Time,
>m.riddoch-AT-ecu.edu.au writes:
>
>Subj: Re: Gestell/Gewinnst - Truth as opinion Date: 10/12/2003 18:20:30 GMT
>Standard Time From: m.riddoch-AT-ecu.edu.au (Malcolm Riddoch) Sender:
>owner-heidegger-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU Reply-to: 
>heidegger-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU
>To: heidegger-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU
>
>On Thursday, December 11, 2003, at 12:35 AM, allen scult wrote:
>
>But loving the other as other is not the point in philo-sophia, unless, of
>course, we're talking about Lacan's "absolute other," in which case we're
>talking "wife" which is a whole other matter.
>
>NOOO! I was talking about ME!
>
>In the case of philo-sophia, it's truth I love.
>
>What do you mean you have a wife? And her name's philo-sophia? Is she Greek?
>Why didn't you tell me this before Allen?
>
>Jud:
>You must have missed the explanatory posting he sent to the list just after
>his recent Greek trip.
>
>Apparently he looked up the name 'Philosophia' in the Athens phone book
>thinking it was the local Philosophy Club . A Jewish lady called Philosophia
>Finklestein answered.  They chatted [he's a  silver-tongued fast mover] and he
>proposed there and then on the phone and was accepted. She's a widow 
>though, and
>she only agreed to the marriage if he accepted her three kids too. It was OK 
>because they all have Greek names as well - Aristotle, Plato and cute [though
>ugly] little Socrates. They all live in America together now in Allen's house,
>which is called 'The Atheneaum.'
>
>'All's Well That Ends Well' as the Bard said.
>

That it is, Master Jud, that it is!

Before your  aptly funny addendum, I was all set to write Malcolm a nasty note,
saying that his ear for humor was as tinny as his ear for philosophy; 
that his refusal
to seriously engage anything I've said has finally reached finality.

On a more serious note, there was  no need for anything to be said between
Philosophia and me.  I understood from the start (once I had 
uncovered the start)
  that with the death of her husband, who
was my brother, it was my obligation to marry her, take on her children,
and continue to multiply the possibilities in his name (which was not 
Finklestein,
by the way, but rather B-Findlichkeit) which I have done to the best of
my ever diminishing capabilities.

Further by the way, it turns out I was always in love with her.

Best regards,

Allen


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