Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 08:11:09 +0100
From: "Joerg T. Gruel" <jtg-AT-owl-online.de>
Subject: Re: PLC: Vague but Pleasant Sentence of the Day


Didn't mean to suspect you, Walter. Yet now that we seem vaguely  agreed  on time and  location of ze mishap, wouldn't it seem easy to circle in on ze culprit ?

BZW, isn't Nicolai Hartmann reported to have been repeatedly seen raising an eyebrow on a young colleague swinging in to his lectures  in an eccentric leathery outfit ?

Just a vague, but pleasant intuition.

Cheers,

Joerg

Walter Okshevsky wrote:

> Joerg,
> I was neither at Marburg at the time (1923 is 31 yrs. before my birth) nor
> do I know who the speaker in my story is. The story was told to me by
> Graeme Nicholson. Great accent, bei ze vey!
>
> Walter
> =========================================>
> On Sat, 24 Jan 1998, Joerg T. Gruel wrote:
>
> > Nice urban legend, Walter - but why on earz duzzid allwehs huff "to bee" Heidelperg?
> >
> > I've just read an autobiographical sketch from  Pasternak, where he depicts his early years before the war, especially his stay in Marburg, age-old town built round a steep hill, the old castle towering narrow, twinkled  lanes, the university dating back to Luther's times, the professors, e. g. Old Cohen, talking just the way your anecdote would have them talk - well, I spent my first semesters there myself, and I dare say it's only Marburg (as opposed to, say, enlightened, urban Mainz) where that fateful incident could have taken place, which means tracing back the whole hypostatic system of ontological whatsoevers back to the idiosyncratic habits of a young accademic in mediaeval surroundings.
> >
> > Or am I on the wrong track altogether?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Joerg
> >
> > Walter Okshevsky wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, 23 Jan 1998, Eric Yost wrote:
> > >
> > > > As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle
> > > > a light in the darkness
> > > > of mere being.
> > > >
> > > > -Carl Jung,  Memories, Dreams, Reflections
> > > >
> > > >
> > > Which reminds me of the story about the world-renowned philosopher from
> > > the University of Heidelberg. He introduced his lecture to the Philosophy
> > > Society with: "Gut evening gentlemen. Ze title of my lekture today is: "On
> > > Being True, Just, Temperant and Courageous." Unfortunately, I veel not
> > > have ze time to speak about oll of zese, zo I veel speak on only von. I
> > > veel speak on "Being."
> > >
> > > W
> > >
> > > Walter C. Okshevsky
> > > Memorial University
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