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- From: eliz@ai.mit.edu (Elizabeth Willey)
- Subject: Re: Fiction Advice 12: Show & Tell/ On Evil
- In-Reply-To: bf455@cleveland.Freenet.Edu's message of 15 Nov 1992 12:48:09 GMT
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- Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 18:03:16 GMT
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- "Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy,
- monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is
- always new, marvelous, intoxicating. `Imaginative literature,'
- therefore, is either boring or immoral or a mixture of both."
- ---Simone Weil
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- See also Hannah Arendt on the Nuremberg Trials, for more illuminating
- thought on evil.
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- Elizabeth Willey
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