[lit-ideas] Re: on the home front

  • From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:57:22 -0400

>>Humans, with their useless, nonthinking but ever scheming big brains, are much more like yeast in a barrel of grape juice or bacteria in a petri dish, or even an AIDS virus that kills its host.


My contention is that humans are like "everything," particularly like similes and metaphors, especially when they are not.

He of the old rope-a-trope,
Pseudo Parmenides

PS: Happy Phonograph Invention Day!
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