On May 9, 2008, at 3:26 PM, Robert Wrubel wrote:
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> Jerry Monaco <monacojerry at gmail.com> wrote:
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> "All heroes should have their own circle of hell very close to the
> traitors."
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> Come on, Jerry! I'll bet you have plenty of intellectual/artistic
> heroes. A hero is someone who appears to have god-like qualities,
> of intellect, or feeling, or creativity. How can you withhold the
> label from someone like Tolstoy, or Freud, or Schweitzer or Picasso
> -- whatever the shortcomings of their personalities might be?
Heroes are "dog food and a banquet for birds" (Homer)
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things...it consents and does not consent to be called Zeus."
Herakleitos of Ephesos