Subj : Back again
To   : RICHARD M. MEIC
From : Frank Masingill
Date : Wed Jul 11 2001 11:36 am

 > >  I remember only Frank Massingale and Todd Henson as onetime
 > ->  participants.

 > Frank is gone!?  He was not a one timer but an old timer here.  Henson was
 > a real mess and I am personally thankful I do not have to deal with him
 > again.

    My name is Eugene Frank Masingill and I'm not "gone."  I had to stop 
posting for reasons having nothing to do with the normal run of participants on 
the echo.  My philosophical interests have not changed.  I am still a keen 
student of the school of Eric Voegelin who advised that philosophy in modern 
times had most often to be found, not in the work of professional or school 
philosohers but in various types of literary endeavor (He expressly mentioned 
Hillis Miller in his _Conversations_").  Having read Albert Camu's _The Rebel_ 
many years ago, I very much agree with Voegelin's remarks in his chapter, "The 
Consciousness of the Ground" in his well known book, _Anamnesis_, in which he 
laments the early death of Camus who already revealed signs of moving heavily 
against the "ersatz realities" that beset modernity.  I had caught more than a 
passing glimpse of this in _The Rebel_, wherein he outlines the exciting 
emergence of "rebelling against the rebellion" that constituted the core of 
intellectual movements during my education.

Frank

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 * Origin: Frank's House (1:396/45.12)

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