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> I see no  reason here to have Diogenes snuff out his  lantern.
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> You're killing me here. Who is Diogenes? What happens if he snuffs out his
> latern? And what the heck is a homilie?
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> We're spending our money on Vanagons. You've gotta dumb it down a  bit.

"Diogenes of Sinope, d. c.320 BC, was a Greek philosopher, perhaps the most
noted of the CYNICS. He pursued the Cynic ideal of self-sufficiency, a life
that was natural and not dependent upon the nonessential luxuries of
civilization. A student of ANTISTHENES, he is credited with the development
of the chreia (moral epigram), with a scandalous attack of convention
entitled Republic (which influenced ZENO OF CITIUM), and with tragedies
illustrative of the human predicament.

"Because Diogenes believed that virtue was better revealed in action than in
theory, he made his life a protest against what he thought of as a corrupt
society. He is said to have lived in a large tub, rather than house, and to
have gone about Athens with a lantern in the daytime, claiming to be looking
for an honest man--but never finding one. In later art, Diogenes is often
depicted in a torn cloak, with a dog, carrying a lantern." - by Robert S.
Brumbaugh

The Diogenes comment was a sort of backhanded way of calling Ken dishonest
without actually saying it outright (which would have required defending the
comment's validity).

--
John Bange
'90 Vanagon - "Geldsauger"