From: "Leigh Johnson" <quickleigh-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: something "new" to talk about
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 17:41:51 CST




Hello all.

I've been sitting quietly through all of the recent nonsense (as I suspect 
many of you have, also).  Time for some positive intervention, I figure.

I'm really interested to hear what some of you think about the eternal 
return.  Here's my question: literal or metaphorical?

I used to fall on the metaphorical side myself, but with a very poor 
understanding... almost ecclesiastical, I'm ashamed to admit.  After reading 
Deleuze, I find myself swaying closer to a literal understanding of the 
eternal return.  (Not to be confused with what Deleuze calls the "manifest" 
understanding-- that is, I don't think that the eternal return is a circle.) 
  Anyway, I think I have better and more insightful textual support from 
Nietzsche for a literal understanding of the eternal return-- or rather, in 
its "negative" formation-- that those [people/things/forces/values/etc] 
which are unable to affirm life, to enact the will to power, will 
(literally) not return.

So, out of interest or pure exasperation... any takers?

leigh
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