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   From: lrudolph@panix.com   
      
   Tang Huyen  writes:   
      
   >Lee Rudolph wrote:   
   >>   
   >> Not to disagree with you (for I don't), but simply   
   >> to provide a counter-image to the--possibly--over-   
   >> sweet "butterfly" some readers may imagine reading   
   >> "chrysalis", I offer "maggot"; as in "Maggot   
   >> Debridement Therapy", q.v.   
   >>   
   >> Lee Rudolph (or perhaps "Debride Stripped Bare   
   >> by Her Bachelors, Even")   
   >   
   >Buddhism is supposed to be the method of removing   
   >adventitious defilements (or afflictions) from a pure   
   >mind. Plotinus (who participates in a Greek expedition   
   >to western Asia and who met with gymnosophists,   
   >presumably Buddhist and Brahmanist masters) speaks   
   >of a sculptor removing pieces from a block of marble   
   >to make a sculpture as metaphor for the purification   
   >process.   
      
   A much-used metaphor both earlier and later than   
   that, with various objective correlatives; I don't   
   think I've seen "the purification process" as one   
   before this--thank you.  I find with Google's help   
   that there is a large critical literature on how   
   Yeats used Plotinus; for instance, an Irishman   
   asserts that "It has, of course, long been recognized   
   that the concluding question of" Yeat's poem _Among   
   Schoolchildren_ "is modelled on the Plotinean question   
   of distinguishing the knower from the known."  All   
   I knew, heretofore, was that Yeats had written a   
   couple of poems with "Delphic Oracle" in their titles   
   and Plotinus in their texts.   
      
   >Now, take people like Fu and DharmaTroll.   
      
   What these boards need is a poster with the handle   
   "DogmaTroll".   
      
   Lee Rudolph   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)