Reply #71: The Deer Hunter wasn't out till '78/79, so it couldn't be copycatting that. [View All]

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Otherwise, the implication was that this was a one time deal? Not that he did this crap with all or most or some of his students? Just a special relationship between somebody-in-need-of-a-follower (so he wouldn't be NIETZCHE) and somebody-needing-to-be-a-disciple?

Literally, he committed an assault, since you appear to have taken him seriously. At best it was an astoundingly stupid lack of judgment. Just "precious" in the sense of: "excessively refined : affected".

Perhaps the misguided inspiration (crediting this as a real life event) was the HITCHCOCK t.v. segment where the wife of gambling freak (Peter LORRE?) ungloved her hand to show missing digits in a chop-the-fingers-off game for a bet.

If the Third World is the bottom, or wherever the bottom is, life is cheap. At a certain decadent level, life is a game. For most people, it is neither.