Do You Write or Think? Mr Nietzsche's Assessment of Your Dilemma.

[onebatmotherofgoditschilly]

I had forgotten this:

"The literary woman, unsatisfied, agitated, desolate in heart and entrails, listening every minute with painful curiosity to the imperative which whispers from the depths of her organism "aut liberi aut libri [either children or books]."
?Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

Ten years ago I would have turned the page with a sigh and a sneer.

Today...?

Camus yuk. He has a Sarkozy look about him. He would be running off with Carla Bruni before you could say "I know of only one duty, and that is to love"

Most of these philosophers and Beckett etc, have really intelligant faces - it sort of shines from behind the eyes. I like that in a person. Really thick people always look dead behind the eyes.

intelligent I mean

lolololo! booster cushion! plumping!
still here, but distracted by kids - i will be back.

Swedes question for you

Threadworm - In that cartoon you linked - the speech bubble coming from the young dude should say "Fucker" or "Shit for Brains"

answer: she doesn't laugh at your links?

rewind:

Swedes question for you

Swede: Why so horrid to Kant???

Oh is it because Kant has just called the dude a, well, 'Kant'? Silly me. Dur!

Or is it because his transcendentalist account of practical reasoning ignores the real texture of our moral lives in favour of a dessicated rationalism?

absolutely the latter threadie.

oh ho, crossed wires, you were responding to Swedes shit for brains. Dur indeed.

Threadworm - Your last post contains a structural ambiguity - I don't know which Kant you are referring to?

The philosopher. Any other sense of 'dessicated Kant' would belong in the health or relationships topics.

"No such page. Either Swedes has not created a public page yet or its privacy settings don't allow you to see it."

drums bat-claws loudly.

I was referring to the pronoun his which creates a structural ambiguity. We had already established, via propositional calculus, that there are two Kants. As Threadworm so eloquently put it, "the philosopher" and the other Kant.

I heartily recommend Wilfred Hodges book - An Introduction to Elemnentary Logic - for a little light reading between toddler naps.

Have you helped your master down from his dining chair and replumped his booster seat ready for breakfast? Do you then give him a leg up onto the sofa. Suspect he manages to get himself off on his own quite easily?

Threadworm - V big lol

Oh Swedes you are good. Damn and double-damn you.

I have no need of Mr Hodges, thank you.

Mr Bat (prenom: Napoleon) is comfortable, thank you. He has shucked off his shoes, put his accessories away, and is swinging his little legs in a doomed attempt to make our rocking chair move.

Must go, have to stand wordlessly behind him and 'accidentally' rock the chair.

rocking chair bit is true btw, miss lowlights.

yes threadie, what Swedes said, forgot to high-five 'doing' philosophy.

Why don't you do philosophy? I will limit myself to something generically thinky. OR we could have comedy bookgroup? Like R and J, but where everyone just says "er.. "

Oooh I had never thought of bringing a tobboggan indoors. Is it after Arne Jaccobsen (sp)? or not yet available at Ilva?

if you have to sp Arne Jacobsen I'm not sure I should answer. You are modernist, surely, Swedes?

snicker DP is 6'2"

But I had the rocker specially adapted - added a metre in height - to keep him infantilized.