Subj : Back again
To   : FRANK MASINGILL
From : RICHARD M. MEIC
Date : Thu Jul 12 2001 08:59 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 am sencerely pleased that you are not.  Of all of us from those times I 
thought you to be a die-hard.

-> 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_").  

I know not of Miller's work but I agree that the dicipline of philosphy 
does not belong to any particular group of people.

There is a lot of philosophy to be found in fiction literature.  I 
challenge everyone (you, John and the lurkers) to identify the originator 
of the following quote:

"We are the universe attempting to discover itself."

Or words to that effect.  The meaning is what is important.
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