Thank you, Keston, for posting your extraordinary, exemplary
essay on Prynne and Nietzsche. I haven`t read all of it, and haven`t
read the bits I`ve read with the attention they deserve, but so as
not to risk the list passing over it in silence I`ve tentatively
formulated a few little idiocies for you to swat:
The Nietzschean ring to Prynne`s Spurs is an insight, as is the discussion
of a shared tendency to set an "optimism" in a "sufficiently pessimistic setting."
What about characterising it differently? Description of projected marshalling
of astoundingly various and powerful forces of X even as we in our
actually not-that-beleagured fastness cross and uncross our legs and
read a book; which is an attitude, a shape, already thoroughly satirised in
the poems. If Prynne already points out his (and our) venality re:
this tendency, might not that venality inflect your account of the
practice? Also, you say you can, but CAN you casually drop Niezschean
association of the highest values with youth, masculinity and
aristocracy from the vehemence which is not just its vehicle? I
mean, we can see why you`d want to - the new farci, stuffed with
class-conscious Prynnean protein, wouldn`t taste so nice, be as good for us.
It`s a toothless, ahistoric Nietzsche who only shouts loud so he can
be shouted down (by ANYTHING as loud or louder) in the future.
A pathetic rejoinder to such a rich text but I hope to come back to
it later, subject to evolution.
all best
robin
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