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blazing hair. It confused me and others. But she runs from man to man, offering endearments, she speaks of love, then breaks each man to her will.85 We see it too late.
Parra too. He went against the boys, you know, Neruda and the others. Perhaps Pinochet squished out his last hopes.
Si. Plato too is feeling hostile after all the juntas and moral dismay after the Peloponnesian War. Ever since Perikles perished in the Plague, he has changed. I can’t blame him! I heard that he is now locked in his Academy trying to grasp another reality. Something called the hyper-ourano. But, truly, who desires that in drama!
[Chorus] “The true problem of philosophy is who does the dishes
nothing otherworldly
God
the truth
the passage of time absolutely
but first, who does the dishes
whoever wants to do them, go ahead see ya later, alligator
and we're right back to being enemies”86
But still Hume perplexes me. Why does he really say that we ‘must’ incur a more public affection?87 Isn’t he wearing his own theatrical mask by saying ‘must’? Doesn’t this really mean that we are not motivated by genuine affection? Otherwise why would he say, we ‘must’, we ‘must’!
Well, well, do we have a tinge of deontology sneaking in! See what Kant would say about that!
Maybe we need to be more affectionate. Look at what Odysseus’ and his men on the way to Troy did to Philoctetes, the valiant bearer of Herakles’ bow. Leaving and exiling the
85 Bukowski. The Pleasures of the Damned. “A Killer.” USA: Ecco, 2008. 336. 86 Ibid. Bukowski.
87 Hume. Section V. II.
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