tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577091962812282559.post8001332621905532023..comments2024-03-29T03:01:54.922-07:00Comments on bloginafog: It may seem strangeWoflhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10215884001340285492noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577091962812282559.post-77871619187037766232023-03-10T01:27:13.661-08:002023-03-10T01:27:13.661-08:00Arthur Schopenhauer was my special subject at the ...Arthur Schopenhauer was my special subject at the Queen's University of Belfast (now part of the University of Ulster0 because (mercifully) I could not study hippophile Nietzsche. In my finals I took an ultra-Nietzschean (probably also ultra-Schopenhauerian) stance in discussing Schopenhauer, and did not obtain a degree...although in years to come I was offered a doctorate by the Courtauld Institute of the University of London for my work on Obscenæ in Mediæval Sculpture – which could, of course, not be awarded because I lacked a primary degree.<br /><br />I had read very little of Schopenhauer, whose prose style is abominably Germanic, and retained even less, because of my terrible memory.<br />Woflhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10215884001340285492noreply@blogger.com