http://ookee.com/linkblog/2007/08/diogenes-of-sinope/ the geek's linkblog Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:17:30 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://ookee.com/linkblog/2007/08/diogenes-of-sinope/comment-page-1/#comment-36086 Zapski Fri, 24 Aug 2007 02:03:24 +0000 http://ookee.com/linkblog/2007/08/diogenes-of-sinope/#comment-36086 Diogenes has always been one of my favorite Greeks. I think he'd have been a riot to hang out with. Diogenes has always been one of my favorite Greeks. I think he’d have been a riot to hang out with.

]]> http://ookee.com/linkblog/2007/08/diogenes-of-sinope/comment-page-1/#comment-36040 DB Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:09:05 +0000 http://ookee.com/linkblog/2007/08/diogenes-of-sinope/#comment-36040 I am intrigued by the post and the story, which is why it pains me so to say that the "mortal coil" is not something that you leave; it's something you shuffle off, as if to say it's a (sometimes oppressive) weight that is lifted when you die. I do wonder if it's a bad sign that the main thing I've learned in my time at school is how to be a word prick. I am intrigued by the post and the story, which is why it pains me so to say that the “mortal coil” is not something that you leave; it’s something you shuffle off, as if to say it’s a (sometimes oppressive) weight that is lifted when you die. I do wonder if it’s a bad sign that the main thing I’ve learned in my time at school is how to be a word prick.

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