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Spence’s and Farron’s rhetoric and tragic-romantic readings, more than any historicism, re-affirms our affinities with tragic heroes and heroines who are neither evil nor perfect in virtue nor vice (Aristotle’s spin), don’t deserve their misfortunes, whether out of ignorance of a material fact or of circumstance: Nietzsche’s all-too-human versus Derrida’s Minerva’s owl.
3⁄4 Hegel’s owl 3⁄4
Dweller of the hermeneutical penumbra
of tropes, images, concepts
in-between the analytic daylight and the oniric night.
3⁄4 Dido and Aeneas’ Cavern 3⁄4 What
Time will not tell.
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