[PEN-L:2674] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: intern needed

["piet bouter" <poetpiet@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Wed, 27 Jan 1999 11:03:32   Jim Devine wrote:
>In response to Doug's effort to hire an intern,
>
>>>Tom Walker wrote: >>>Would that be LBO as in LiBidO?
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>Doug responded: >>I'm too old for one of those.
>
easy: body, soul and spirit in tandem (or is it traend'em now?
that fool freud who was raised by a maid and fancied his mamma (as a consequence; incest ain't natural past a certain stage of complexity...ooohohoahahaha..profound, well tis still early and I 'm sharper now than at night
)
>Wojtek responds:> It is not age, Doug.  It is power, the ultimate
>aphrodisiac as our fearless leader can attest.
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>I wonder: if knowledge is power, and power is the ultimate aphrodisiac, why
>didn't _my_ Ph.D. pay off?
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>and if knowledge is power and power corrupts, does that mean that knowledge
>corrupts? and that absolute knowledge corrupts absolutely?
Just as Heidegger's stuff is as 'abgehoben' as Butler's and mere mirror images of molecular mechanics, never getting from Sein to Stein; so power can't seem to find the will to powder

>or maybe I really am ignorant.
>
>"all I know is that I know nothing." -- Socrates.
Confucius was praised for his intelli-prowess but said: "I only know one thing well but it permeats all things"
quoted in Leopold Kohr's "the overdeveloped nations"
His ears were as big as mine but he was pretty deaf towards the end of his life pioneering the small is beautiful body of thought.
>Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx &
>http://clawww.lmu.edu/Faculty/JDevine/jdevine.html
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