Re: Final posting for a long while and the schaddenfreud paradox

From: Marcus Smith (marcus@loyno.edu)
Date: Tue Sep 18 2001 - 16:41:39 EDT


I presume your "W" = Shrub and not Walker?

Marcus

>I don't know that Walker coined the term himself; that's probably mine, but

>the idea was definitely his: that we tend to feel good at times when things

>are bad, e.g. when a hurricane is on the way. And in conversation,
>schaddenfreud was one of his favorite saxonisms.
>
>Apropos of your remark about things being over your head, I would venture to

>suggest that one reason why the s. p. doesn't seem to be operative at the
>moment is because it's all over everyone's head, including W. The fact that

>it is makes me all the more schadden and so much les freud...
>
>Nikki
>



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