Hmmm...
Perhaps what was missing from C.D.'s last line was the word 'understand',
and the concept of 'understanding' was missing from P.C.'s reply.
Or maybe....
I am just an idiot.
Glen Fuller.
PS Hey look at that CD and PC, too of the most common acronyms around,
quick, someone ring the Freemasons.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Crosby" <pcrosby@xxxxxxxx>
To: <foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 3:19 PM
Subject: Re: if -- And
> Not sure I understand you correctly. Assume for the sake of argument
> that the last sentence of your last posting was completely
> unintelligible and made absolutely no sense whatsoever (I'm not saying
> this is in fact that case, I'm just saying, assume for the sake of
> making an example, that it is). Are you saying that this is a result of
> Plato's sexual activity, 2500 years ago? And are you saying that if he
> had behaved differently, you might then, as a result, today be capable
> of writing intelligible sentences? Furthermore, are you saying that you
> gleaned this insight through a reading of Foucault, and that if it were
> not for "his own scandalous behavior," you may not have gleaned this
> most amazing insight?
>
> charmaine driscoll wrote:
>
> > Now we are getting somewhere. As a matter of fact Foucault initiated
this
> > project. With his life and ideas; for instance;The Lives of Infamous
Men;
> > his writing about the hermaphodite,the one about Pierre Riviere, and
> > naturally his own scandalous behaviour. And whether Plato was homosexual
> > makes all the difference in how we, and how I, and how he wrote.
Perhaps what was missing from C.D.'s last line was the word 'understand',
and the concept of 'understanding' was missing from P.C.'s reply.
Or maybe....
I am just an idiot.
Glen Fuller.
PS Hey look at that CD and PC, too of the most common acronyms around,
quick, someone ring the Freemasons.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Crosby" <pcrosby@xxxxxxxx>
To: <foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 3:19 PM
Subject: Re: if -- And
> Not sure I understand you correctly. Assume for the sake of argument
> that the last sentence of your last posting was completely
> unintelligible and made absolutely no sense whatsoever (I'm not saying
> this is in fact that case, I'm just saying, assume for the sake of
> making an example, that it is). Are you saying that this is a result of
> Plato's sexual activity, 2500 years ago? And are you saying that if he
> had behaved differently, you might then, as a result, today be capable
> of writing intelligible sentences? Furthermore, are you saying that you
> gleaned this insight through a reading of Foucault, and that if it were
> not for "his own scandalous behavior," you may not have gleaned this
> most amazing insight?
>
> charmaine driscoll wrote:
>
> > Now we are getting somewhere. As a matter of fact Foucault initiated
this
> > project. With his life and ideas; for instance;The Lives of Infamous
Men;
> > his writing about the hermaphodite,the one about Pierre Riviere, and
> > naturally his own scandalous behaviour. And whether Plato was homosexual
> > makes all the difference in how we, and how I, and how he wrote.