[r9etb]

Not to mention the influence of Aristotle, Nietzsche and Dostoevsky. I believe she acknowledged Aristotle and Dostoevsky was on of her favority authors (mine too).

But as you note, she also owes a lot to Nietzsche, which is not helpful to her cause. (See here, about halfway down the page for Whittaker Chambers' discussion of this debt....)

[Feiny]

Which reminds me of something very amusing I saw written in a bathroom stall:

"God is Dead"
~Nietzsche

"Nietzsche is Dead"
~God



Ahhhhh, Bathroom philosophy....it needs its' thread!