He was an extremist. After all, he destroyed conventional ontological metaphysics. (If you ask me in public what that means, I will never forgive you.)
Since they are all eggstremists, they should be seated at a roundtable to avoid priority squabbles. Then they can look quizzically at each other by turns. As in Watt, where the members of the investigating committee have just spent several pages trying to catch each other’s eye:
Thus of the five times four or twenty looks taken, no two have met, and all this craning forward and backward and looking to the right and to the left has led to nothing, and for all the progress made by the committee in this matter of looking at itself, its eyes might just as well have been closed, or turned towards heaven. Nor is this all. For now Mr. Fitzwein will very likely say, It is a long time since I looked at Mr. Magershon, let me look at him again now, perhaps who knows he is looking at me. But Mr. Magershon, who it will be remembered has just been looking at Mr. Fitzwein, will certainly have turned his head round the other way, to look at Mr. O’Meldon, in the hope of finding Mr. O’Meldon looking at him, for it is a long time since Mr. Magershon looked at Mr. O’Meldon. But if it is a long time since Mr. Magershon looked at Mr. O’Meldon, it is not a long time since Mr. O’Meldon looked at Mr. Magershon, for he has just been doing so, has he not. And indeed he might be doing so still, for Treasurers’ eyes do not readily fall, nor turn aside, were it not for a strange-smelling, at first not unpleasant, but with the passage of time frankly revolting vapour arising from among the recesses of Mr. Magershon’s body-linen and issuing, with great volatility, between his nape and his collar-band, a bold and it must be allowed successful effort on the part of that dignitary’s pneumogastric to compensate the momentary confusion of its superior connexions.
I can’t find my copy of Watt, so I had to transcribe the above from Google Books, which suppressed the preceding two pages where the quizzical round of unmet glances is described in detail.
Thank you dearie, how interesting. A few bad experiences with fresh goat’s cheeses that have more than a ”whiff of the tail’’ made me hesitate.
What absolute nonsense. This woman’s obviously never seen a goat’s dropping.
An old joke that I’m pretty sure I’ve told before. It was written down by an old Jewish guy for me when I was a kid, and then explained to me by him. He assumed a strong middle-European accent:
I won’t add anything, only these ideas.- Anyway, both architects do always the same, from a not expert viewpoint: brick facades or arches like a hand-held. I know that is an oversimplification but is my opinion. It’s true that Calatrava is only a star (well paid) so I prefer the “austerity” of Moneo: Romanesque before Gothic.
No idea. It’s not a common name, even in Scotland. My ancestor of that name went from Fife to Ontario in the early 1800s.
I haven’t figured out why I sometimes appear here as tgoodwillie. At the moment the spaces visible below the LEAVE A REPLY box have Ø and the voidplay url in them, and maybe this comment will come through as intended. Or maybe it will be like last time, and when I hit Post Comment I will get a message saying something about not being logged in to Google or whatever it is and the next thing I know I’ll have my own name again.
Yes. WordPress tells me that my email address belongs to an account that I am not currently logged in to, and offers me a chance to login but not a chance to pick a different name.
But that time, since I was already logged in I guess, it gave me no trouble. All I had to do was click where it said “change” and then alter my name as desired. Only I failed to alter the url, too.
The problem has to be related to the fact that a few months ago I started a WordPress blog to serve as a course web page.
It’s probably caused by a wordpress cookie on your computer. I think if you can remember all your passwords etc., you could remove them & then replace the info when called upon. But don’t listen to me, I know nothing about this sort of thing.
Crown, you are probably right, but if you are I wouldn’t know what to do with the information. I should ask The Boy. I should have asked him some time ago; it is probably obvious to him.
A Bad Guide
You’ve changed the order !! Kant is now being presented as a man-in-the-middle, something he by no means was.
They are now, from left to right: Descartes, Kant, Nietzsche.
Tell that to the undertakers.
But I’d be willing to hear why he wasn’t in the middle.
He was an extremist. After all, he destroyed conventional ontological metaphysics. (If you ask me in public what that means, I will never forgive you.)
Well then it’s only right that Nietzsche should follow him, isn’t it?
Nietzsche.
Gesundheit!
Or Neatshire (I’m thinking Surrey).
Since they are all eggstremists, they should be seated at a roundtable to avoid priority squabbles. Then they can look quizzically at each other by turns. As in Watt, where the members of the investigating committee have just spent several pages trying to catch each other’s eye:
I can’t find my copy of Watt, so I had to transcribe the above from Google Books, which suppressed the preceding two pages where the quizzical round of unmet glances is described in detail.
“Craining forward”, not “craing forward”
I mean CRANING.
I’ve corrected it. Thank you very much for taking the trouble to transcribe it. For those in doubt, as I was, Watt is by Samuel Beckett.
Thanx.
Watt is the name of that book.
>A. J. P. Crown
Off-board.-
Rafael Moneo has got the prize Príncipe de Asturias of Arts. Today is also his birthday. What a coincidence!
What is FUNEX?
A recipe using goats’ butter.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/9259922/Rose-Princes-Baking-Club-dairy-free-lemon-drizzle-cake.html
Thank you dearie, how interesting.
A few bad experiences with fresh goat’s cheeses that have more than a ”whiff of the tail’’ made me hesitate.
What absolute nonsense. This woman’s obviously never seen a goat’s dropping.
Raphael Moneo deserves a prize. Santiago Calatrava however, is a conceited fuck who has squandered his talent and will no doubt end up in Hell.
FUNEX: ” ‘eff you any eggs?”
An old joke that I’m pretty sure I’ve told before. It was written down by an old Jewish guy for me when I was a kid, and then explained to me by him. He assumed a strong middle-European accent:
FUNEX?
IFX.
FUNIM?
IFM.
LFMNX.
I won’t add anything, only these ideas.- Anyway, both architects do always the same, from a not expert viewpoint: brick facades or arches like a hand-held. I know that is an oversimplification but is my opinion. It’s true that Calatrava is only a star (well paid) so I prefer the “austerity” of Moneo: Romanesque before Gothic.
ICDLFN
ESNRMS
Pourquoi des philosophes ? Yes, why philosophers?
All eggheads, i.e. crânes d’œuf!
Ø looks like a bit of an egghead in his photo. So do you Sig, if I remember right. Both nice brown eggs.
To me Egg-Nietzsche looks like Teddy Roosevelt.
Any relation?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Goodwillie
No idea. It’s not a common name, even in Scotland. My ancestor of that name went from Fife to Ontario in the early 1800s.
I haven’t figured out why I sometimes appear here as tgoodwillie. At the moment the spaces visible below the LEAVE A REPLY box have Ø and the voidplay url in them, and maybe this comment will come through as intended. Or maybe it will be like last time, and when I hit Post Comment I will get a message saying something about not being logged in to Google or whatever it is and the next thing I know I’ll have my own name again.
Yes. WordPress tells me that my email address belongs to an account that I am not currently logged in to, and offers me a chance to login but not a chance to pick a different name.
But that time, since I was already logged in I guess, it gave me no trouble. All I had to do was click where it said “change” and then alter my name as desired. Only I failed to alter the url, too.
The problem has to be related to the fact that a few months ago I started a WordPress blog to serve as a course web page.
It’s probably caused by a wordpress cookie on your computer. I think if you can remember all your passwords etc., you could remove them & then replace the info when called upon. But don’t listen to me, I know nothing about this sort of thing.
Yeah, it’s probably crumbles in the keyboard, But coffee’s ten times worse, as I found out when I was told to install Java.
Haha. Is Java named after the coffee?
Don’t know, but it makes scents to me.
Crown, you are probably right, but if you are I wouldn’t know what to do with the information. I should ask The Boy. I should have asked him some time ago; it is probably obvious to him.