> [Original Message] > From: Phil Enns <phil.enns@xxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: 1/22/2006 8:59:24 AM > Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Sunday Poem > > David Ritchie wrote: > > "I also said that when it comes to students two things annoy me from the > outset: ... and quoting Santayana's comment about people being doomed to > repeat history. A more inane comment would be hard to imagine!" > > My favourite quote about repeating history: > > "Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and > personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first > time as tragedy, the second as farce." (Marx, _The Eighteenth Brumaire > of Louis Bonaparte_) > > And the umpteenth time it's obsessive-compulsive disorder. Imagine what pharma can do with that. God forbid. > Sincerely, > > Phil Enns > Toronto, ON > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, > digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html