[lit-ideas] Re: Murder in two cultures

Phil Enns: "Further afield, there is Camus' discussion in _The Rebel_ of the 
Russian
anarchists..."

John Mc: "Or the Samurai attitude immortalized in Chushingura..."


Unless I'm wrong, and I was once, you guys are on the wrong bus.  Norman's 
asking after David Savory's old bug-a-boo: 'honor'.  Why don't American 
uxoriciders own up to their deeds with honor?  I suggested that they have, par 
exemple, in the person of Hickey (Iceman Cometh) -- Norman's still checking 
that out.  My question is where has Norman been for he past 41 years?  "Miranda 
Rights  -- ever heard of 'em?  No one confesses without plea bargining -- 
where's the honor is being thought a dim-wit?  Honestly, Norman, you're so 
yesterday.

Mike Geary
guilty of nothing
but being me
in Memphis

  
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  On 4/14/07, Phil Enns <phil.enns@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
     who would immediately surrender after having done the deed.
    Perhaps more relevantly, there is Camus' discussion of why this practice 
    stopped.

  (The 47 Ronin), where duty requires a man who has lost his lord to remain 
alive until revenge is taken, after which he should, to demonstrate his 
nobility, take his own life. 

  John




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