ABSTRACT
Kierkegaard uses Snak and snakke throughout Either/Or, usually in the more neutral sense of talking in contrast to action. The aesthete of the first volume draws on this distinction for his discussion of both art and life. Thus, Molière’s Don Juan is judged to be a less powerful work of art than Mozart’s Don Giovanni because the music of the opera is seductive, whereas the play includes only talk of seduction.2
