Thanks for the correction. Where would we be without you?

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@...> wrote:
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> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "feste37" <feste37@> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> 
> Actually it was post no. 281378. Terrific post, and a great
> exchange with MZ.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > 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 
> > > art—Irony—might take away some of that purity and innocence which was so 
> > > much the signature of you when I first responded to you? Then—many months 
> > > ago—you convinced me of the validity of the marriage of East and 
> > > West—something 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) coincidences—embodied in the context of your post (from 
> > > waybackwhen—July of 2011?). I carry the memory of that event. Because it 
> > > tended to suggest I was being a little dogmatic. Remember that?
>


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