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Grief can be hard to deal with. I have not been tested the way Conan Doyle was.
Sad that such a brilliant man could become so irrational.
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pathetic fallacy, the attribution of human response or emotion to inanimate nature. (First used by John Ruskin.)
1856 Ruskin Mod. Paint. III. iv. xii. §5. 160 All violent feelings.. produce.. a falseness in.. impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the ‘Pathetic fallacy’. 1856 Geo. Eliot in Westm. Rev. Apr. 631 Mr. Ruskin.. enters on his special subject, namely landscape painting. With that intense interest in landscape which is a peculiar characteristic of modern times, is associated the ‘Pathetic Fallacy’—the transference to external objects of the spectator's own emotions.
p.s. - dr. bill, this is my first posting in thread; I think you were responding to Faldage.
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I can see how a couple of dead-pan guys like tsuwm and Faldage could get easily confused.
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a couple of dead-pan guys like tsuwm and Faldage Must...resist...temptation.
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tsuwm and Faldage Must...resist...temptation.
Looks like we both did.
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> Belief in spiritualism is a pathetic fallacy.
Hmm, I thought belief (in general) was the only, hmm, rational option; but then again belief is irrational; the contradiction, negation and the paradox are the non-objects of belief; anyway words like these are empty where there's no beginning or end - a bit of rhythm and tone one the other hand...
"Jetzt sind wir da wo die Luege haelt, das ist die Wahrheit, das ist die Welt"
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"Jetzt sind wir da wo die Luege haelt, das ist die Wahrheit, das ist die Welt""Something something something the(?) something the something something, that is the something, that is the something" Ooh, I'd love a better translation....please, by?!  my German ain't up to this and I don't have a German/English dic....
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Dear MG: you'll still need belligerentyouth to give authentic translation, I'm not sure of "hält".
Now we are where the lie stops, that is the truth, that is the world. Somewhere near, but
to close to the original, a looser translation would give the meaning better, I suspect.
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Thanks, Unca Bill. What a great expression....I hope I can learn it in the original German but I fear my pronunciation may not be up to much either....
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