tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post1918567327036014570..comments2024-03-28T15:48:11.151-04:00Comments on The Philosopher's Stone: The passing of a great manRobert Paul Wolffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-50168540486708787642014-01-30T22:17:58.617-05:002014-01-30T22:17:58.617-05:00To the old Greeks, the mark of excellence in a phi...To the old Greeks, the mark of excellence in a philosopher was that he lived up to the values of his philosophy. First, know thyself -- but then live it too. Seeger is immortal.GTChristiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14390368105725901371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-87070595232895209672014-01-29T01:31:19.932-05:002014-01-29T01:31:19.932-05:00What a hoot! I know The Banks Are Made of Marble ...What a hoot! I know The Banks Are Made of Marble ( with a guard at every door) but I never heard the Greud ditty. Lord, he was wonderful. Robert Paul Wolffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-27398477558556223542014-01-28T11:36:14.498-05:002014-01-28T11:36:14.498-05:00What I like to call a long-distance runner.
Consi...What I like to call a long-distance runner. <br />Consistently a mensch. <br /> (I remember well my sister's LP of his which included a real oddity, The Ballad of Sigmund Freud. It also included the great Banks are made of Marble). Here are the lyrics to the former:<br />Well, it started in Vienna not so many years ago<br />When not enough folks were getting sick<br />A starving young physician tried to better his position<br />By discovering what made his patients tick<br />He forgot about sterosis and invented the psychosis<br />And a hundred ways that sex could be enjoyed<br />He adopted as his credo "down repression of libido!"<br />And that was the start of Doctor Sigmund Freud<br /><br />Well, Doctor Freud, oh Doctor Freud<br />How we wish you had been differently employed<br />But the set of circumstances<br />Still enhances the finances<br />of the followers of Doctor Sigmund Freud<br /><br />Well, he analyzed the dreams of the teens and libertines<br />Substituted monologue for pills<br />He drew crowds just like Will Sadler<br />When along came Jung and Adler<br />And they said by God, there's gold in them there ills!<br />They encountered no resistance<br />When they served as Freud's assistants<br />As with ego and with id they deftly toyed<br />But instead of toting bedpans<br />They wore analytic deadpans<br />Those ambitious doctors Adler, Jung and Freud!<br /><br />Well, Doctor Freud, oh Doctor Freud<br />How we wish you had been differently employed<br />But the set of circumstances<br />Still enhances the finances<br />of the followers of Doctor Sigmund Freud<br /><br />Now the big three have departed<br />But not so the code the started<br />No, it's being carried on by a goodly band<br />And to trauma shock and force us<br />Someone's gone and added Rorschach<br />And the whole thing's got completely out of hand!<br />So old boys with double chinsies<br />And a thousand would-be Kinseys<br />They discuss it at the drop of a repression<br />And I wouldn't be complaining<br />But for all the loot I'm paying<br />Just to lie on someone's couch and say confession!<br /><br />Well, Doctor Freud, oh Doctor Freud<br />How we wish you had been differently employed<br />But the set of circumstances<br />Still enhances the finances<br />of the followers of Doctor Sigmund Freud David Auerbachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15612242467208247588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-4594438996007901602014-01-28T10:29:39.834-05:002014-01-28T10:29:39.834-05:00"So few of the old minstrels remain true to t..."So few of the old minstrels remain true to their political commitments throughout their lives. That, more than anything else is for me the mark of true greatness."<br /><br />What a wonderful measure of greatness!Jerry Fresiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01427077490696059928noreply@blogger.com