[lit-ideas] Re: Locating Friere's foot

  • From: John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 20:55:43 +0900

> “I sit with a philosopher in a garden; he says again and again, ‘I know
> that that is a tree,’ pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else comes
> by and hears this, and I tell him, ‘This fellow isn’t insane; we’re only
> doing philosophy.'" [from L. Wittgenstein, ON CERTAINTY]
>

Reminds me of my Dad. I asked him once why he liked to fish so much. He
said, "Well... if I told people I was just going out to stare at the water,
they'd say I was crazy."

John


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