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And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again? Archilochus

Sunday, August 26, 2018

Metaphysics

13 comments:

(((Thought Criminal))) said...

What happens when you combine pasta and antipasta?

Mrs. Grundy said...

I give up? What happens?

(((Thought Criminal))) said...

Gag particles

Franco Aragosta said...

SORRY! I just don't like the mocking, "Smart Alec" attitude displayed here.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

While, for those who preferred a more forcible word,
He had different names from these:
His intimate friends called him "Candle-ends,"
And his enemies "Toasted-cheese."

"His form is ungainly—his intellect small—"
(So the Bellman would often remark)
"But his courage is perfect! And that, after all,
Is the thing that one needs with a Snark."

He would joke with hænas, returning their stare
With an impudent wag of the head:
And he once went a walk, paw-in-paw, with a bear,
"Just to keep up its spirits," he said.

-Lewis Carroll, "The Hunting of the Snark"

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Then the bowsprit got mixed with the rudder sometimes:
A thing, as the Bellman remarked,
That frequently happens in tropical climes,
When a vessel is, so to speak, "snarked."


Our Ship of State has been "snarked"

Franco Aragosta said...

I love Lewis Carroll.

Franco Aragosta said...

There's more wisdom and far greater aesthetic appeal in the MAD HATTER'S TEA PARTY, JABBERWOCKY, FATHER WILLAM and THE HUNTING of the SNARK than in all of SLAVOJ ZIZEK'S prolix blather. (:-o

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

A true artist can reduce the complexity to a simple parable. It was Plato's great gift.

(((Thought Criminal))) said...

The Walrus and the Carpenter is Carroll's best.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

I'm more of a Jabberwockian...

(((Thought Criminal))) said...

Vorpal snickersnack, my beamish lad

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

...exactly!