Ha, you picked my only free day this week to post! Yay for you :) And since nothing short of the apocalypse will make me go outside to brave the freakishly cold weather again today I have some time to comment as well. To be honest, if you hadn't told us about the Hegel thing being a quote... well I must admit I wouldn't have noticed it at all. Woe me for being so uneducated. I should have studied something else. What you said about the meaning of Einsicht is very nicely put though. Insight came to my mind too when I tried to think of a possible translation, but that meaning fits even less than acceptance. I'm still missing the equivalent of 'doch' in English. 'Doch' is such a nice word for stubborn idiots like me who like to contradict some things purely on principle to aggravate others *g* It made me sad somehow to think of Hellstrom and Stiglitz in that situation. Makes you think of missed chances. Or maybe melancholy is more fitting... gah now you've infected me with your geekiness :)
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To be honest, if you hadn't told us about the Hegel thing being a quote... well I must admit I wouldn't have noticed it at all. Woe me for being so uneducated. I should have studied something else.
What you said about the meaning of Einsicht is very nicely put though. Insight came to my mind too when I tried to think of a possible translation, but that meaning fits even less than acceptance. I'm still missing the equivalent of 'doch' in English. 'Doch' is such a nice word for stubborn idiots like me who like to contradict some things purely on principle to aggravate others *g*
It made me sad somehow to think of Hellstrom and Stiglitz in that situation. Makes you think of missed chances. Or maybe melancholy is more fitting... gah now you've infected me with your geekiness :)