A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY THROUGH PHILADELPHIA AND CHICAGO II:
I asked my nephew this evening if he wanted to read my book with me (current book: Charles Taylor, A Secular Age). We actually made it through several pages. Interestingly enough, he kept on flipping to the sections of the book where Taylor writes about Neitzsche. He picked up some vocabulary, too: 'Meecha' (this is Neitzsche) and 'last man.' I tried to get him to 'Zarathustra,' but he couldn't quite pronounce it--four syllables is a bit much.
Now I pretty much have to get him the child's Machiavelli book for Christmas.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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