on 1/6/02 3:09 PM, Martin J. Walker at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> I sympathise with you, Fred ~ when I asked what "naff" really meant (being
> long absent from my homeland), Candice berated me for Kantian essentialism
> (actually think she got hold of the wood by the wrong stick, as Kant was
> warning against what one might call noumenalism).
Don't forget that the Critique of Pure Opinion was a work of intellectual
juvenilia, ultimately disavowed by Kant in his mature Judgment.
> But that
> Céline imitation (is it in English or French?) sounds tempting...
Be careful what you wish for, Martin! If the famous passage Fred has in mind
is the one I'm thinking of, it's rendered homophonically the same in the
original and its English translation (something along the lines of
"brouagh").
Candice
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