[lit-ideas] Re: Sunday Poem

  • From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 09:04:12 -0500

> [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

Other related posts: