tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post4633476657466044731..comments2024-03-17T09:38:01.251-05:00Comments on Adventus: Because I watched the Super Bowl....Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-85911335110622662692013-02-07T10:59:39.454-06:002013-02-07T10:59:39.454-06:00Ah, Paul Harvey. Such mixed feelings. Babbitry, ...Ah, Paul Harvey. Such mixed feelings. Babbitry, yes, but what a stylist!<br /><br />It was in the summer of 1976, I was working ten hours a day as a rodman--the surveyor's assistant--at Bradley's Bulldozer Service, in rural North Texas, and by night struggling through Being and Time, in preparation for writing a senior honors thesis in philosophy.<br /><br />It was while riding down a dusty, almost-two-lane back road in a pick-up that I heard the following, in that inimitable staccato: "Martin Heidegger...German existentialist philosopher....DEAD!" That was it.<br /><br />I rather doubt that Mr. Harvey had any detailed notion of "das Sein zum Tode." But I thought it was the perfect form of obituary.rick allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07612435616018593956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-87089144300613275472013-02-07T10:22:35.808-06:002013-02-07T10:22:35.808-06:00The original really drive me up a wall. Bathos in...The original really drive me up a wall. Bathos in the service of commerce is never a good mix.<br /><br />This was an antidote.Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-40846340809273693332013-02-07T10:16:36.501-06:002013-02-07T10:16:36.501-06:00Paul Harvey, I thought I was free of that New Spea...Paul Harvey, I thought I was free of that New Speak Babbitt when he died. Stand by for ooze.The Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.com