RE: Yakyakian Sententiousness

From: Damien Broderick (damienb@unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sun Jun 01 2003 - 00:28:23 MDT

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    At 10:15 PM 5/31/03 -0700, Lee Corbin wrote:

    >Once at university, I chanced (while heading down the wrong
    >corridor in the library) upon a huge fat volume entitled "Being
    >and Time", or "Time and Nothingness", or something like that,
    >written by one of the usual suspects Sartre or Heidegger.

    I imagine it was BEING AND TIME by the horrible Heidegger. Sartre at least
    has some entertaining little stories in his tome BEING AND NOTHINGNESS, as
    befits a playwright and novelist, although not as many as Woody Allen in
    his much smaller tome NOTHING AND BEINGNESS.

    >I took it over to a table and sat down. The next thing
    >that I remember is that the book was back at its place on
    >the shelf, and that I had a splitting headache.

    Ah, that would be MISSING AND TIME, the frightening UFO abduction
    experience. Could you still sit down?

    >you evidently escaped a similar fate at
    >an impressionable age.

    I was lucky to meet it all at a post-impressionist age. (Being able to
    believe six impossible things before breakfast helped, too.)

    Damien Broderick



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