From a weblog post today—
"one of our great achievements as a species
is the rhetorical question. indeed, this is what
separates us from the higher animals. it is
how we make sense of our lives. our lives
are rhetorical questions, aren't they?"
And our deaths?
Backstory:
This journal on Oct. 25, 2013— St. Crispin's Day—
and a eulogy last night in The New York Times by an
art-department professor, Crispin Sartwell, who is also
the author of the above remarks on rhetorical questions.
Sartwell's Times eulogy was for an older
professor and art theorist, Arthur Danto.
Danto died on Crispin's Day.
Update:
