Re: Really??

Fractal (fractal@mail.wantree.com.au)
Mon, 11 Aug 1997 20:03:06 +0800

>>There are actually a number of us on the list, but like old soldiers, we've
>>seen it all (especially eternal return)
>
>Come, come, Fractal, we are willing to bet that not one of the
>participants on this list actually knows either what Nietzsche meant by
>the eternal recurrence, nor what the eternal recurrence is about. Only
>blindness can assure one of having seen it all, for having seen nothing
>at all.
>
>LC

Ahhh yes dear LambdaC..so right you are. I should clarify and say instead,
"...but like old soldiers, 'eternal return' returns eternally on this list."
But my sweetest LC, even blindness cannot assure "...one of having seen it
all, for having seen nothing...", for only if one concretizes the sign
'seen' as having a determinate meaning would the statement hold true.

metaphorically yours,

Fractal
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