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- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Path: sparky!uunet!well!sarfatti
- From: sarfatti@well.sf.ca.us (Jack Sarfatti)
- Subject: re: Nasty people.
- Message-ID: <C1Jrn1.LLz@well.sf.ca.us>
- Sender: news@well.sf.ca.us
- Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 04:40:12 GMT
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- Topic 279: Mad Scientists II
- # 12: Epigone of Koestler (rcl) Mon, Sep 14, '92 (17:58)
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- Praising Sarfatti in front of his face certainly won't alter his
- character for better or worse, so let me say this. He strikes me
- as one of those unusual American originals, The Existential Hero.
- Such people don't often exist outside the fiction of Hemingway or
- Mailer. Perhaps sarfatti has drunk deeply of the Mailerian spring.
- Whatever drew him into this way of life, the fact remains that
- he's obeying Nietzsche's maxim, live dangerously; and he's
- pursuing Whitehead's ideal of the Adventure of Ideas. This he is
- doing not as an insensate sleepwalker, but fully conscious and
- aware of the dangers he runs and the glories he might gain.
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- Too bad that some blockheads among us writhe with envy at the
- spectacle of a gifted soul aiming at stardom, and who spit gall
- rather than applaud a trapeze artist flying high, netless, over
- marble.
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