[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> of course we must also ignore the germans rudolf bultmann and paul tillich
> (protestants), gabriel marcel (roman catholic), the russian nikolay berdyayev
> and the jews martin buber and franz kafka (also an austrian) they are all
> tainted with the french stench, you see. french philisophers (or non-philisophers,
> forgive me) all.
Good god man, speaking of French taint, you forgot Koestler. Just
because he had the bad taste to live to a ripe, and rather silly, old
age in the US, doesn't seem like fit ground for exclusion. It is
possible to have been a player in 1930's French philosophy and yet not
to die young of consumption, refuse the Nobel prize, or end out your
days as a south east asian despot. No? And what about that Algerian
fellow K once punched in the nose, Camus?
--
Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, Wyoming, recorded a message that
one of its Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles was
about to launch from its silo due to a computer malfunction. To
prevent the possible launch, an armored car was parked on top of
the silo.
- Shaun Gregory, The Hidden Cost of Deterrence: Nuclear Weapons
Accidents, Brassey's UK, London, 1990, pp. 181-182.
