>--- Carl Remick <carlremick at hotmail.com> wrote:
>He said in his essay "Experience": "I grieve that
>grief
>can
>teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real
>nature."
>---
>
>Yeah, see, that sentence is exactly what I find
>annoying. Grief is a _part_ of real nature.
>
>But then I am a Heidegger scholar by training, so I am
>partial to pathos. :)
And you're human, and grieve. Emerson wasn't - he aspired to be a self-sufficient monad.
Doug