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littlemanpoet · 06-20-2006, 05:53 PM

I humbly apologize for summarizing out of turn.

There is, in Germanic tradition, a "Gõtterdammerung" perspective that this seems somewhat akin to, though I may be giving it more credit than it has coming. I mean that there is a Nordic tendency toward a view of life as bleak and "we're doomed so we'll live it to the fullest"; which is, essentially, a form of "eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we die". So it seems akin, but perhaps gives these frankly cowardly literati too much credit, if I may make so bold in calling them so.

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06-20-2006, 05:53 PM	#13
littlemanpoet Itinerant Songster Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Edge of Faerie Posts: 7,066	I humbly apologize for summarizing out of turn. There is, in Germanic tradition, a "Gõtterdammerung" perspective that this seems somewhat akin to, though I may be giving it more credit than it has coming. I mean that there is a Nordic tendency toward a view of life as bleak and "we're doomed so we'll live it to the fullest"; which is, essentially, a form of "eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we die". So it seems akin, but perhaps gives these frankly cowardly literati too much credit, if I may make so bold in calling them so.