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