[lbo-talk] Kees van der Pijl

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Fri Jun 27 21:42:28 PDT 2003


Tacitus thought better of the Germans than that. Maybe he was operating on a Noble Savage myth, but his picture of the Germanic tribes is pretty inspiring . . . jks

It doesn't seem to me
> that the
> Teutons and Vikings developed in a way that should
> be inspiring
> to anyone but rapists and brigands. In any case, the
> most
> successful of them (Franks and Normans) "Latinized"
> themselves
> as far and as fast as they could.
>
> Shane Mage
>
> "immortals mortals, mortals immortals, living their
> deaths, dying their lives"
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 62
>
>
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