Opher Kutner writes to Kevin Solvay:

> I'd like to ask you a personal question:
> By your own admission, you are a dogmatic person.
> I think it is safe to say (though I hope I'm wrong), 
> that you are not here to modify your opinions,
> but to modify others'.
> You have reached, in you mind (sorry, I had to add that),
> Absolute Truth,  which is a state of mind nobody,
> I guess, would want to shake or lose. 
> Since you think this Truth exists,
> why don't you make an attempt to convese
> with others in their language?
> Why do you preach using ambiguous words
> like "infinite growth", "courage", "pain".
> These are Kierkegaard words,
> and he didn't want to be understood.
> You are writing to us - so I would expect
> that you *are* trying to enlighten us.
> Do you at all feel you are doing this?
> Of course, I may be the only one on the list that thinks this.
> But, as it is, I have a much easier time
> understanding the others (that is,
> when they used to write - ...).

For my part, I very much enjoyed reading the dialogue
between Therese Foote and Kevin Solvay, and I trust
I am not the only one who thanks them both for publishiing
their obviously deeply held convictions on the Internet.

I am also sympathetic with Opher Kutner's puzzlement
at Kevin Solvay elliptic, apodictic expressions. I too
am frequently at a loss to interpret his words, which I
construe as solecisms, that, unless and until they are
explicated, can serve only as nidi for my own logical
inventions.

With respect to the potential discovery by any of us of
absolute truth, I respectfully suggest that if ever one
of us should discover himself in danger of that cognitive
and ethical catastrophe, he make every effort to borrow,
or if necessary, steal, Book Two of the Concluding Unscientific
Postscript, since, undoubtedly his own was long ago mislaid,
if not by Freudian accident, thrown out with the trash, and
that he meditate earnestly on Part One Chapter 2, Section 4,
which in my Swenson Lowrie translation is entitled:"Lessing
has said that if God held all truth in His right hand, and
in his left, the life-long pursuit of it, he would choose
the left hand"

Is there any Kierkegaard devotee who wouldn't choose the same?

Ernst Meyer