Re: Moviegoer and despair


Subject: Re: Moviegoer and despair
From: Marshall Smith (Cocasteady@AOL.COM)
Date: Tue Nov 23 1999 - 19:52:42 EST


Dear David and Rhonda:

Many thanks for the informative conversation. I am enjoying the chess game
greatly.

Maybe Binx doesn't dwell too emphatically in the ethical stage because of
Kierkegaard's concept of the "teleological suspension of the ethical." In
that sense, a quick leap from the aesthetic to the religious would be viable.
 Perhaps Binx never articulated, implicitly or otherwise, a goal of existing
in the ethical realm.

On the Faulkner issue, I vote for a desire to confuse english majors and
instructors, but above all interviewers. The bourbon is a close second.

To my mind, an almost daily movement between the three spheres is
self-evident, so I think the most recent quote you've unearthed, David, is
the one I would hang my hat on. Percy's philosophically accurate portrayal
of characters would have required such a movement. However, in the context
of Kierkegaard's spheres, my existence may be unusually undefined.

Happy Thanksgiving to all, and thanks for the good converse.

Marshall Smith



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