georgeob1 wrote:Then, by most accounts you are truly exceptional, even among those who do not partake of' 'religious fantasies'. Take care that it lasts.
How very Jesuitical . . . perhaps you experience "fear and loathing," and "the sickness unto death," and therefore make a Kirkegaard leap to faith. That does not warrant, however, extrapolating your superstitious fears to everyone else.
Quote: (Fitzgerald, by the way was an atheist).
If you refer to Eward Fitzgerald, the reclusive English "orientalist" of the nineteenth century, most noted for his translations of Omarm Khayyam's
Rubaiyat--then i consider that statement to be without foundation. Fitzegerald, né Purcell, attended Trinity College, Cambridge and later married the daughter of a noted Quaker poet. Although there has been advanced a not unreasonable contention that he may have been bi-sexual or homosexual, i know of absolutely no basis for a contention that he were an atheist.
Do you have a source for your contention, or do you refer to a different Fitzgerald? If the latter, it's very sloppy of you to refer to a poet named Edward Fitzgerald without making the distinction, as the Edward Fitzgerald to whom i refer is easily the best known poet in English by that name.
