Saturday, November 13, 2010

Hegel-Shmaygel

While Auden's ditty was undeniably spot-on—

No one could ever inveigle
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
To offer an apology
For his Phenomenology.


—he can be forgiven, finally, don't you think?

The flat-headed one, who "ruined the minds of a whole generation", has, after all, been ascended to pure being for 179 years, today.

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