The master aphorist Don Colacho says: "We reactionaries provide idiots the pleasure of feeling like daring avant-garde thinkers."
Perhaps he speaks of progressive critics who think they are on a march to enlightenment. They leave backwards thinkers behind.
Or perhaps he speaks of his admirers who quote him profusely and deem themselves to be part of a rising cognoscenti.
The entire set of aphorisms is worth reading. The Anglosphere owes a debt to the translator Stephen, who has considerably boosted the reputation of this insightful Colombian.
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You are probably correct on both counts. There's a reason why Gómez Dávila included that quotation from Nietzsche in the epigraphs.
And now, to add one more level of irony to all this, I would suggest that those who have just discovered Gómez Dávila need to meditate on #669:
"Whoever cites an author shows that he was incapable of assimilating him."
Ha, that is another gem. Thanks for stopping by, and please do consider an e-book of your translations.
I may have to think about a book, but it won't be any time in the near future.
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