[lit-ideas] Re: Fwd: Why philosophy?

John: Clients pay for what they perceive as fresh and original, not for what the other guy did just the other day. A sophist I am, I embrace the role. And I have my professional standards.
Yes, indeed. One must separate the writing one does to pay the chichi villa's maintenance fee, tune up the 1936 Bugati, expand the hothouse for more orchids, etc., from the writing one does because one must.
Which is jokey but not aimed at John. Professional integrity trumps everything for those of us who feel that way, and yet must earn a living by the Word, InCopy, or by trying to be Wordperfect.
That might make us ueberhacks, or sophists with scruples. In the pro market that's something, because it is flooded with unscrupulous hacks, scribes whose lance is not merely free but completely mercenary and of polar chill.
"Let's spin Hitler's hand as the palm that reaches to pat lovingly, not as the stiff paw that heils." 

You betcha!

In solidarity,
Eric
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