dmb, When I was thinking of Percival a few days ago, I was thinking of an ancient chinese saying, 'If the wrong man uses the right means, the right means work in the wrong way.'
Have a nice day... Marsha On Sep 29, 2010, at 12:28 PM, MarshaV wrote: > > okay? > > > On Sep 29, 2010, at 12:24 PM, david buchanan wrote: > >> >> >> Marsha said to dmb: >> Are you going through my posts looking for errors? I can save you the >> trouble and admit to making lots of mistakes. >> >> >> dmb says: >> >> No, I'm not looking for errors. I tend to comment on the errors that are so >> glaring and jarring that they just jump out at me. I mean, it's not exactly >> a subtle mistake to construe the wise fool as a "pure fool" or a "poor >> fool". In doing so, a very dynamic archetype of the hero becomes an entirely >> negative figure. He is Bugs Bunny, the Brujo at Zuni and Lance the surfer in >> Apocalypse Now. He's Bill Hicks and Alan Ginsberg. I especially like this >> description: >> >> "The trickster is a very important archetype in the history of man. He is a >> god, yet he is not. He is the wise-fool. It is he, through his creations >> that destroy, points out the flaws in carefully constructed societies of >> man. He rebels against authority, pokes fun at the overly serious, creates >> convaluted schemes - that may or may not work - plays with the Laws of the >> Universe and is sometimes his own worst enemy. He exists to question, to >> cause us to question & not accept things blindly. He appears when a way of >> thinking becomes outmoded needs to be torn down built anew. He is the >> Destroyer of Worlds at the same time the savior of us all." >> >> You can take this correction as a form of persecution or you can take it as >> an opportunity to divest yourself of a misconception. I think it would be >> wise to pick the latter. Don't you think it would be better FOR YOU? You >> don't want to ignore the facts of the matter just to spite me, do you? You'd >> only be hurting yourself, which would be foolish, no? >> >> >> >> Marsha said to dmb: >> Please not the corrected posted a few hours later. >> >> >> dmb says: >> >> Sorry less the correction position in ever minutes. >> >> >> >> >> >> Moq_Discuss mailing list >> Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. >> http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org >> Archives: >> http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ >> http://moq.org/md/archives.html > > > > ___ > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html ___ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
