Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 19:48:27 -0500
From: allen scult <allen.scult-AT-drake.edu>
Subject: Fwd: Re: the teaching profession


It's not that your wit and good judgement are not enough, Henry.  But 
just to be on the safe side, perhaps it's a good idea to cast such 
ready-for-death hyperbolees over wide expanses.  I hope you don't 
mind.

Allen


>
>
>"I always seem to be over-ruling what I say almost as
>  > soon as I say it."
>
>brilliant, allen...  professorial and divine...
>
>shazam! i just realized we're "off list."
>we're not sharing this genius...this wit...
>
>
>
>allen scult wrote on 6/12/04, 4:16 PM:
>
>  > >and just doesn't your paragraph 2 overrule your paragraph 1to wit--,
>  >
>  >
>  > No need Henry.  I always seem to be over-ruling what I say almost as
>  > soon as I say it.
>  > Though sometimes I can hold off to the next paragraph.  That's
>  > basically why I haven't
>  > gotten anywhere--no, that's an overstatement;  let's say further than
>  > I have.
>  >
>  > Which puts me in the mind of another Nietzschean aphorism:  The one
>  > regarding the true exercise
>  > of will to power whereby you understand and affirm that the only way
>  > to have anything is
>  > to wish for it all to happen again exactly the same way.  I always
>  > considered that overly harsh.
>  > So I thought of a counteroffer:
>  >
>  > I'll take this (the perfect moment alone in the prairie yesterday,
>  > for example); you take everything else!
>  >
>  > Now I'm ready to die.
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > >  the
>  > >god of will to will is just the old observing one, the representer of
>  > >the representations... while Baseling professorially, ah, well there's
>  > >style to that: one gains bicycling past lovelies with parasols, wearing
>  > >one's brown suit, one's bowler hat...a smile over the right shoulder, a
>  > >pause and skillful u-turn on the cobblestones.  no god can do that. no
>  > >god could afford to...
>  >
>  >
>  > You're right.  God and gods are prone to rather extreme forms of S&m
>  > to even
>  > get it up, let alone get it on.  I bet a god could do that though
>  > without it costing him his
>  > job.  But then again, maybe that's the kind of chance we all have to
>  > take!
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > >i have never been in turin, but i found a fat wallet in a restroom at
>  > >the GARE in Balé, many years ago. It belonged to a Portuguese, who
>  > >bought me my very first Feldschlassen, and gave me my very first
>  > >Gauloise... the rest is history, and on several levels of description...
>  >
>  >
>  > I'll say!  But I'm actually too old to remember my first Gauloise.
>  > That's
>  > why I need to consolodate history, my own included into one, maybe
>  > two moments, which
>  > stay with me.  Everything else either fades into the background to
>  > possibly return in my dreams,
>  > or becomes absorbed into one long drawn out present.  at least that's
>  > what I think happens.
>  >
>  > Best regards,
>  >
>  > Allen
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > >
>  > >amscult-AT-DRAKE.EDU wrote on 6/12/04, 10:43 AM:
>  > >
>  > >  >
>  > >  > Of course the advantages of the professing profession are
>  > >  > mutlifarious,especially compared to God, the being of whom
>  > >  > is equally unwinnable, but with none of the ancillary perks and
>  > >  > pleasures, especially if your predilections move in the direction of
>  > >  > doing
>  > >  > rather than merely observing.
>  > >  >
>  > >  > But assuming Nietzsche speaks here of the best being-in-the-world
>  > >  > position
>  > >  > for philosophizing, the will to power choices open to the professor
>  > >  > for learning
>  > >  > from what and how he does what he does are potentially much more
>  > >  > fruitful than
>  > >  > simply being God, all things considered.
>  >



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