[lit-ideas] Re: Toulmin's Gross Moral Turpitude
- From: jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:57:02 -0500
P. Stone:
"I was just pointing out how -- with everyone, but especially with
famouse everyones -- we never talk about them until they are dead."
Too true. This may have to do with Holderin´s idea -- taken up by
Heidegger and Geary -- of death as finality.
I think the Victorian custom of publishing obituaries is to blame. I
never read an obituary of someone whom I never knew when _alive_.
Unless I´m in the bathroom.
With the industry of obituaries (a Victorian invention, as Ritchie may
testify), it became a mark of polite society to point out when someone
has left the ´land of the living´.
The obituaries in THE TIMES were the "order of the day".
Ditto with births. It was customary to point out when someone´s baby
was born. Or someone engaged, or married, etc.
In Polynesia, as McCreery may testify, that is _not_ the norm.
Cheers,
JLS
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