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| | Leo Strauss (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Strauss was very impressed by Heidegger’s thoroughness and intensiveness of his interpretations of philosophic texts, (in particular, on one occasion, when he understood something of what Heidegger meant, his interpretation of the beginning of Aristotle’s Metaphysics). |
 | | Strauss could exhibit was, I suspect, inherited, for another story he liked to tell was of a prank played by his father upon a travelling business man who used to stop in their German town. |
 | | Lebenslauf published in Strauss, 1997, page 298 and anecdote: “Strauss, age sixteen, feigned appendicitis to escape conscription but, unfortunately for him, in the operating room a doctor found that his temperature was normal. |
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