[lit-ideas] Re: things we know
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On Thu, 29-Oct-09, Donal McEvoy wrote:
a synthesis of Hegelians, a utility of Pragmatists, a unity of
Kantians, a nonsense of Logical Positivists, a form of Platonists,
a lumpen of Marxists etc. The collective for this collective?
On 31-Oct-09, at 8:07 PM, Eric Yost wrote:
>>The collective for this collective?
a muddle of philosophers
a saga of novelists
a twist of short story writers
an exposition of essayists
a choir of poets
a reverie of memoirists
a pit of opera composers
a tangle of architects
If by 'this collective' we mean the subscribers to lit-ideas, I
respectfully submit
an anthology of literary idealists
via French or medieval Latin from the Greek 'anthologia', from
'anthos': 'flower' + '-logia': 'collection' (from 'legein':
'gather' ); here employing the figurative use of 'flower' (i.e., to
denote the finest individuals out of a number of people or things).
Chris Bruce,
smelling like a rose, in
Kiel, Germany
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