Comments on: DAEMONI, ETIAM VERA DICENTI, NON EST CREDENDUM

By: bob mcmanus

bob mcmanus — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 19:04:21 +0000

“Isn’t that from The Usual Suspects, Bob?” Well, it is almost a major theme of Andre Gide’s Counterfeiters and journal (diary?); been 25 years. As I remember, used in terms of cultural nihilism in the narrative; subtle manipulation of characters by other characters; and a perceived lack of authorial intrusion and control. In this case, I was saying that charges of liberal bias are intended to distract from actual conservative bias.

By: yabonn

yabonn — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 18:12:11 +0000

Maybe “the devil’s biggest trick is to make you believe he doesn’t exist”? That would be baudelaire, then.

By: Motoko

Motoko — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 17:05:40 +0000

Isn’t that from The Usual Suspects, Bob?

By: bob mcmanus

bob mcmanus — Fri, 24 Sep 2004 18:59:48 +0000

Somebody once said (actually I am thinking Gide, but he may have been quoting) that “The Devil is most powerful when there is the least belief in him.” Somebody else has said that the right has a tactic of preemptively accusing the left of the right’s intended dirty tricks. I am moving beyond the veil to the position, and demand a media that Lyndon Larouche would call fair and balanced.

By: jdw

jdw — Fri, 24 Sep 2004 17:15:48 +0000

The MSM has been so focused on Rathergate that they’ve completely ignored the 17th century possessed-nuns story. Advantage: Holbosphere!

By: jholbo

jholbo — Fri, 24 Sep 2004 17:12:40 +0000

I was trying to ‘reach’ Fafnir, but I think there was interference. Hurry, there isn’t much time.

By: Barry Freed

Barry Freed — Fri, 24 Sep 2004 17:09:13 +0000

Here’s your full on pro-Bush religion for ya: Bush is Lord Don’t know about the time travel angle though. Perhaps something to do with the Philadelphia experiment?

By: marcel

marcel — Fri, 24 Sep 2004 16:47:25 +0000

I got lost, esp. the last couple of paragraphs. Did you start channeling Fafnir there?