[lit-ideas] Re: What, then, is wanting to know?

  • From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 19:01:56 -0800 (PST)

> "I'm not sure about a "will" to know, but I think
> the desire to know has
> a strong erotic component. Else why would people
> write so much when they
> are in love? Eros is play as much as power isn't
> it?"

*Of course the Bible often uses 'know' (lada'at in
Hebrew) in the sense of carnal knowledge, i.e. of
having sexual intercourse with. However, this kind of
knowledge like any other is partial and phenomenal.

O.K.



 
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