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Monday, November 29, 2004

UD SALUTES...


... Paul Ricoeur, who, along with Jaroslav Pelikan, won this year's Kluge Prize from the Library of Congress, for "lifetime contributions to the humanities." Ricoeur, with whom UD briefly and confusedly studied at the University of Chicago, is a philosopher of language and of religion.

UD recalls a modest, sweet-tempered, disheveled man whose thick French accent (Een ordure to understand metaphor, you have to fuckus.) and dense argumentation defeated UD.

UD is also pleased to hear that, at age 91, Ricoeur is still chugging along.
Posted at: 11/29/2004 04:08:00 PM