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Monday, October 16, 2006

pontification
Of all the philosophers I've read thus far Martin Heidigger pontificates the most. He's setting my teeth on edge and making me view him more and more as an elitist. I'm not liking him all that much. I've read two pages thus far and I'm ready to throw the book across the room. One thing's for sure, he would have failed high school English. He's trying to explain to his poor audience what a "thing" is using high fallooting terminology and making fools of us all. He's not satisfied with stating: "A thing is that which is a noun, any part of conception that can stand alone (by which I mean to say that a thing has to 'verb' a verb cannot be a verb unless there is a thing to do the action and an adjective cannot be an adjective unless there is a thing for that adjective to describe). Even imaginary or 'not real' on this plane of existence has that property of thingship because in the world it is part of it is a noun (e. g. Smaug is a thing in The Hobbit because he 'exists' in the world the book describes)." Simple, easily understood, and if people have issues with it well, that's why the Gray-Hooded-Literary-Poohbahs invented things like footnotes and endnotes and such that can be looked up at the back of the text for ignaramouses who can't think properly or who want to be difficult and can look them up instead of forcing sane, understanding people to deal with assinine drivel. *grr* That's all I have to say on that subject.

On the other hand: Coraline by Neil Gaiman is a very good book and quickly read if anyone wants to escape from the world for a few moments before diving back into work.

'Til next time ...

I love you Batman @}--',--
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