tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463475.post8747587114018990947..comments2024-02-23T14:59:44.189-05:00Comments on The Goat Rope: LOVE AND DEATHMarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07333099574473265593noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463475.post-7395433268456340472007-06-06T05:53:00.000-04:002007-06-06T05:53:00.000-04:00Brecht, Thanks for the comment. FD did have resili...Brecht, Thanks for the comment. FD did have resilience, didn't he? I'd have to place Dante, Homer, and Shakespeare in the highest firmament with him just below.<BR/><BR/>Juanuchis, I'd like to think of Nietzsche as gone but not forgotten...<BR/><BR/>Nick, I think if the Bushies had to pick between democracy and capitalism I know which would win. In the spirit of Fyodor, are you a betting man?El Cabrerohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07393623994934465867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463475.post-53795712910867356992007-06-05T22:56:00.000-04:002007-06-05T22:56:00.000-04:00Thanks for reminding me of what I read long ago an...Thanks for reminding me of what I read long ago and have filed in the deepest parts of my mind.<BR/><BR/>It seems that capitalism and the market are not tied intrinsically to democracy as the Bushites would have us (and the world) believe.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16939152657551690867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463475.post-92127806429829062692007-06-05T21:52:00.000-04:002007-06-05T21:52:00.000-04:00I'm pleased to see you writing about the soul-touc...I'm pleased to see you writing about the soul-touching F.D. who, as you put it, "delved the dark side like few other writers...But he is also the writer of redemption, compassion, and love in the face of death", which is to me the heart of his magic.<BR/><BR/>Reading 'The Idiot' was like walking through a cathedral of the human spirit. Dante also showed the darkest and brightest in the human spirit. But Dante's darkness (like Milton's) is more convincing than his light.<BR/><BR/>Considering F.D.'s own problems with heartbreak, oppression, gambling and epilepsy, he must have had a strong spirit to keep so much light in his work - or perhaps he had to keep it in his work, because there was nowhere else in his life for it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463475.post-26614211726486465632007-06-05T21:30:00.000-04:002007-06-05T21:30:00.000-04:00Hey, I have a friend that did his Masters at the J...Hey, I have a friend that did his Masters at the Joint Military Intelligence College. He had me proof his papers. Mind, my friend is one of the most intelligent people I know. But ... DAMN! "Can ya use a VERB every now and again?" I said I needed an honorary degree for proofing his stuff.<BR/><BR/>Kafka is bizarre which excuses him. Nietzsche is just ... well ... dead.<BR/><BR/>... and I got interrupted in the midst of a great thought. Hate it when that happens.Janis Blandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04151059294317303209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463475.post-51580849372578282662007-06-05T18:34:00.000-04:002007-06-05T18:34:00.000-04:00Nietzsche and Kafka are kind of lively, although t...Nietzsche and Kafka are kind of lively, although the state hospital might still be in order. I just wish Fyodor would have used a new paragraph every now and then. But I guess we have to allow for the shortcomings of non Episcopalians given their lack of exposure to the BCP and all...El Cabrerohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07393623994934465867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463475.post-66561669701025655432007-06-05T17:39:00.000-04:002007-06-05T17:39:00.000-04:00As William Hubben puts it in Dostoevsky, Kierkegaa...<I>As William Hubben puts it in Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and Kafka ... </I><BR/><BR/>Gawd, I don't know if I'd suffer a narcoleptic seizure with those four, or commit myself to Weston State in abject despair!<BR/><BR/>Fr. Zossima is spot on; too bad this can't be the entirety of TBK. :)<BR/><BR/>Interesting view of free market economies vis-a-vis dictatorships or democracy. I will have to read further on that. Keep your eye on Hugo Chavez.Janis Blandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04151059294317303209noreply@blogger.com