You're a beguiling guy, MZ, a seducer, a lover, a Minotaur, no less, luring the unsuspecting into your labyrinth of delicious words. It was post no. 281584 you recall. Reading your posts just after your arrival here stimulated me actually to write something thoughtful that was longer than two sentences. No, I do not see you as dogmatic but as someone who rides gigantic tidal waves of "feeling intellect" (the phrase is not mine but Wordsworth's) wherever they happen to go and then proclaims the truth as it appears to you from whatever metaphysical beachhead you find yourself newly occupying. Before the next tidal wave comes . . . "Old men should be explorers," wrote Yeats, and, although we are surely not yet old, Yeats was also, surely, right.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, maskedzebra <no_reply@...> wrote: > > Dear Feste37: Don't listen to Judy: she is just having fun. She is not > serious. Don't believe a word she says. And by the way, *this* post of yours > outdoes them all. Are you not afraid your steeping yourself in this > artIronymight take away some of that purity and innocence which was so much > the signature of you when I first responded to you? Thenmany months agoyou > convinced me of the validity of the marriage of East and Westsomething I > would not have thought possible up to that moment. This is one of those first > person ontology meets third person ontology (The omnisubjectivity of the > Personal God and the pure consciousness of the Impersonal God) > coincidencesembodied in the context of your post (from waybackwhenJuly of > 2011?). I carry the memory of that event. Because it tended to suggest I was > being a little dogmatic. Remember that? > > Anyway, assuming you are lighting us all up here, this is superb. But just in > case you are on the level, I shall guard against unwittingly obeying the will > of a supernatural powerJudywhose authority over me I had hardly recognized. > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "feste37" <feste37@> wrote: > > > > > > > > This is harder to understand than a John le Carre spy novel. Is MZ, then, > > no more than a hapless tool in the hands of the Higher Powers that you are > > in league with and perhaps even control? > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "feste37" <feste37@> wrote: > > > > > > > > I don't understand, MZ. Only a week or so ago you wrote a > > > > long post practically deifying Barry and excoriating Judy, > > > > but now you seem to have returned to your former position. > > > > You are making me dizzy, MZ. > > > > > > Shhh, don't embarrass him. He flew the coop for a brief > > > excursion, but we brought him back for a little reeducation. > > > Worked pretty well, don't you think? Did some extra "refining" > > > with him, a bit of, er, advanced training, and it shows. His > > > excoriation of Barry today was a significant improvement > > > over his excoriation of moi a couple weeks back, not just in > > > content but in style and tone. Much more elegant and to the > > > point. > > > > > > It's all a matter of *motivation*. We gave him the incentive > > > to improve, et voilà, you see the result. Just ignore that > > > unfortunate excursion and focus on the New Robin. A word or > > > two of approbation wouldn't go badly by way of encouragement. > > > > > >
