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February 21, 2002
Quo Vadis? A contrarian
I'm reading Christopher Hitchens's Letters to a young Contrarian. Hitchens has now introduced me to a plethora of new characters. Here are the salient ones:
Karl Marx de omnibus disputandum
Thomas Gradgrind - Charles Dickens - hard times. school master
Brian victoria Zen at war
Caligula (pronounced kligyool) Roman emperor. Renowned for his ruthless and cruel autocracy. He decreed a statue be built in his image and the jews ordered to worship it. Before his order was carried out he was assasinated by his Praetorian guard.
de omnius dubitandum
Fulke Greville
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Leo Strauss
Antigone
Prometheus.