Very good; a tribute to Gadamer's thesis on the fusion of horizons. The past truly does not sleep; it's slumbers are continuously disrupted by the future with its events and constructs. And what does this make of "the present"? A moment in eternal flux possessing neither sense nor sensibility, waiting to be individuated by the forces of protention and retention. All is anachronism and metaphor. As somebody once said about Soviet history: "It is very difficult to predict." (I gotta stop reading Geary's poems!) "He's a verrry bad man, verry, verry bad." (With side-to-side wagging of the left index finger." Walter Okshevsky New School of Social Re-description New York, New York Quoting Erin Holder <erin.holder@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > This is brilliant > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dXBC6R_rxk > > > > Erin > TO > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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