[lit-ideas] Re: Inferring the Poodle Card
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On 28-Oct-10, at 4:21 AM, David Ritchie wrote:
I cut and paste from the BBC website:
Mr Baker said Mr Broughton was inferring that the UK was a 'US
poodle', but that this was not the case.
"It does sound as though he was kind of venting, rather than engaged
in a careful analysis. I've sort of learned that when Brits play the
'poodle card', it's more emotional than rational and it sounded like
he was playing the poodle card."
Cf.the following; taken from "Companions to genius (and etc.): Famous
people (and their Poodles)":
"Schopenhauer, Authur (1788-1860). German philosopher. Standard
Poodle, Butz (Engler, p. 114; cartoon, p. 115). Also, Atma (Brahmin's
term for World-Soul; Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy in Books on
Tape, from the first of the section on Schopenhauer). Also see "The
Schopenhauer Method," by Alain de Botton, The New York Time Magazine,
13 February 2000, p. 60: "1833: He settles in a modest apartment in
Frankfurt am Main. His closest relationships are with a succession of
poodles who he feels have a gentleness and humility humans lack.... He
lavishes affection on these poodles, addressing them as 'sir,' and
takes a keen interest in animal welfare.""
"Companions to genius ..." is to be found at
http://www.poodlehistory.org/PCOMPAN.HTM
The UK as world-soul - with perhaps the US as just one of its many
manifestations / incarnations - would be a metaphor as dear to United
Empire Loyalists as it would be abhorent to (among others) both
'original' Tea Partiers and their (to us) contemporary name-sakes.
Chris Bruce,
all for gentleness, humility
and the lavishing of affection;
but never feeling a need to be
addressed as "sir", in
Kiel, Germany
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