(urth) The Politics Of Gene Wolfe

Son of Witz sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org
Wed Mar 18 10:36:31 PDT 2009


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>From: brunians at brunians.org [mailto:brunians at brunians.org]
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>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: brunians at brunians.org [mailto:brunians at brunians.org]
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>>>I recommend that you undertake the practice described in Epictetus
>>>'Handbook': http://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/epicench.html is not the
>>>best translation, but it will get you started. It has really helped me.
>>
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>> I disagreed so much with the first paragraph's foundations that I didn't
>> bother with the rest.
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>Remarkable, though I suppose not unsurprising.
>
>Ah well, were you able to accept it you might find it useful. As it is I
>suppose you will have to go through life having bad emotions in response
>to external stimuli.

No, actually I don't have a problem with that. I'm quite aware that I can't control external things. I just dont' agree with the can control / can't control items he listed. I'd switch categories on some of them.







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