Tuesday, November 03, 2009

A fine distinction ...

... A(ristotle) is A(lbert Jay Nock). (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Well, what Aristotle actually said was, "Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular." I don't think Nock's version is all that far off the mark, if it is off the mark at all.

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