[lit-ideas] Re: CIA Admissons Test
- From: Chris Bruce <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 11:53:27 +0200
On 15 Oct. 2006, at 04:36, Walter O. wrote:
A famous metaphysician giving a lecture at Heidelberg:
Gut eevning. Toonaiyt my topeek vil bee "On being just, prudent,
courageous, und vise." I vil not hev eenuff taim to speek on oll ov
dese topics, so I vill focus on only von of dem: I vil speek on
"being."
In the extended academic version of this joke, one of the footnotes to
the punchline reads: see especially Frederick A. Olafson's _Heidegger
and the Ground of Ethics_ (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,1998).
The *fully* extended version the joke is of the very dry, ironic sort
which history often delivers us. A lot of people choke on it - and
thus miss its point (which, like the point of many jokes, has little to
do with humour and a lot to do with puncturing ...).
Chris Bruce
Kiel, Germany
A private version of the joke takes the form of a 'shaggy dog story':
in my copy of Olafson's book I find my train ticket from earlier this
year: Dresden -> Berlin Zoo ....
CB
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