Re: Hannah Arendt's Wrinkled Cunt Rides Again

On Nov 12, 1:37 pm, Just Me <jpd...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Nov 11, 10:24 pm, Stratum101 <j.coll...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:





On Nov 11, 2:27 pm, Just Me <jpd...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

How's this for a show of optimism, eh?  I duly repost these comments
on the slim to nothing chance that maybe by now (present boring
coterie of total squares excluded), some rare to be found soul has
come in to sit down and raise his cup, who would be hip to what's so
hilarious about all this . . .

On Nov 3, 3:37 am, Michael Zeleny <larva...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Howard M. Kaminsky writes in a letter to the TLS regarding
Bernard Wasserstein's Commentary on Hannah Arendt:
As for his charges relating to Arendt's use of Nazi authors and her
inadequate love of the Jewish people, I admit, Jew that I am, to
believing that some Nazi authors had important things to say not
unrelated to their Nazism, above all the viciously anti-Semitic but
incomparably brilliant Carl Schmitt (whom Arendt used even more than
she says) . . .

And just think of the way she used Heidegger, and of the way
Heidegger
used her, and of the way Heidegger used other Jews.

Yes, but Zeleny, tragic character that he is with an
imperfect command of English, apparently meant to
write "...had important things to say *not related* to
their Nazi[i]sm...", the opposite of his clumsy double
negative.  I don't disagree with him.  Intellectuals
who bought into the Third Reich were consumed
by their Naziism.

Well, I don't know.  Seems to me he's always taken a lot of damned
near obsessive care as to the construction of his texts. So just for
the hell of it, taking his word for it, what do you suppose would be
the meaning of his words in case they are to be taken literally? That
like, antisemitic texts might have "important things to say not
unrelated to their Nazism"?

He commented that a few Nazis, despite their ideology,
might have had something to say. (Bless their hearts.
"There's a little good in all of us.") It only scans if his
original sentence has one negative.

I don't probe his stuff with a magnifying glass. Never
mind the misogyny. His errors are glaring for me. I
don't refer to syntactical errors necessarily, but
conceptual errors and stylistics that don't conform to
standard English. He used to have an awful habit of
converting any grammatical object to an adverb by
adding -ly. Georgely (or "By George"), that doesn't work
in an analytic language like English where only adjectives
can be promoted to adverbs, and then not when an alternate
adverb already exists, like good / well (but "bad / badly").
The word "goodly" is actually an adjective.

Hmm. "The Queen acted antidisestablishmentarianistically.
'We should keep the C of E for the tax revenue it generates,'
she declared. A Labour Party spokesman who declined
to be identified said it was "hardly any secret that the
royals, the lot of them, are Tories," adding
"We pay her 4 million quid per annum not to have
opinions and I think we ought to demand our money's
worth."


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