(no subject)
It was true. Henge had hubris, per se. Clint Dossier’s observations were right, at least from a far. Hubris, that expression originating from the Greek: a classical crime of pride, of gloating. Henge’s hubris, however, was a rare case of preemptive gloating. A sort of bragging prior to victory, which in modern parlance has become the somewhat misnomerous (at least in historical context) redefinition of the term. Henge, in modern terms, was exhibiting hubris. So maybe it wasn’t so rare.
Doubtful?
Just think back to the water cannon. The way he commissioned Len Wiedeshofer at Cheviot Machine and Screw to design the cannon. The way, coincidentally, Sax Taxson realized that the necessary component of the cannon would be found in the guts of a magnum sized penis pump.
The waggling about Yale with Ed Groat.
Henge had modern hubris.
But not that ancient Greek sense of hubris.
The battle, remember, had not commenced before the Sorbonne PD showed up.
William Comparetto
© 2007