On Sep 11, 2012, at 11:39 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
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> On Sep 11, 2012, at 11:32 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
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>> It seems that the implication is that the "tool" is stupid. Or is
>> it that it's being manipulated by someone?
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> Means you're the passive or inert instrument of a higher or more
> powerful intelligence.
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> Also, evokes "dick." Reminds me of that great letter to National
> Lampoon in the mid-70s, signed by Yvor Winters, disclosing that T.S.
> Eliot stirred his coffee with his tool.
Hegel said, somewhere, that the cruelest insult is to refer to someone as a "type." ex: "factchecking a bourgeois type"
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things." Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64