On Jan 17, 2009, at 1:36 AM, andie nachgeborenen wrote:
> pretentious claptrap.
"Plato wanted to banish the poets and playwrights because they told
lies"
andie knows perfectly well that the words of a character in a dramatic work should never simply be taken to represent the thought of the author, even less often when spoken ironically, and still less often when followed by an explicit invitation to continue the discussion in ways hitherto unexplored.
So why, in a thread marked by so much pretentious claptrap about Wagner, does andie choose to throw in more pretentious claptrap about Plato?
Shane Mage
> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos