Chris Bruce schrieb:
A corpse, of course; it's a brilliant novel, and there's also a first-rate movie, with lots of first-rate actors.(...)Isn't there a novel by that name co-written by Robert Louis Stevenson? I can't remember - what was in it (i.e., the 'wrong box')?
I'd suggest we better leave it at this point and stop inquiring into the - er - internal depths of the master's polemics. Let's say he found this way of reasoning a bit disappetizing.(...) I at least have never thought such dull rubbish. It is supposed to occur internally, without our being conscious of it. Of course, many things occur internally, e.g. the production of urine, and something even worse; but when that is externalized, we hold our nose. Likewise with such conclusions.(There is a bit of wordplay on the verb 'schliessen' - here: 'to conclude' - and the German word for the anal sphincter: 'Schliessmuskel', which is beyond my - here hastily exercised - translation skills. Perhaps another list member ....)
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