“WORDS WHICH COULD ONLY BE YOUR OWN…”: I can’t believe I forgot to mention the most intriguing moment in Sasha Volokh’s “why study the dead guys?” post–the secret Morrissey/Heidegger connection! (You mean there’s only one?)

Compare Volokh: “Heidegger said biography doesn’t tell us anything useful — he said of Aristotle: ‘He was born. He lived. He died.‘”

with “Cemetry Gates“: “All those people, all those lives/Where are they now?/With loves, and hates/And passions just like mine/They were born/And then they lived/And then they died.” (OK, so these lines are apparently stolen-with-love from “The Man Who Came To Dinner.” Still, it’s good enough for me. Martin Heidegger and Shelagh Delany, together at last….)