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To: Rollocaster who wrote (9261)4/18/2006 5:50:37 PM
From: koan   of 78417
 
Lester, when I was 26 I went on a 2 year intellectual journey to understand. I had an epiphany one day that I not only did not know why Plato was important, I did not even know the questions, so I laid on my couch and read evry great thinker I oculd think of for two years to see what they knew. Most of the time I had no idea what they were talking about, but I kept reading.

Nietzhe was one of my first real heros. I found little in this country except catcher in the rye and it was my discovry of camus and satre that I finally found my people-lol.

When nitzche (no secondary education, so cannot spell, good university education-lol) first picked up a book by dostyesky he said "tears came to my eyes as I found a brother".

I found in reading a zillion biographies that many of the great thinkers are bitter by old age e.g. einstein.

Thomas Mann who won the nobel prize for literature and was hermann hesse's mentor wrote a book "tonio Kroger" which I think was a sort of auto biography.

The intellectual ended up a broken janitor. The football star got the woman, and rich and famous-lol.

Cheers
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