[lit-ideas] Re: A Service Profession
- From: karltrogge@xxxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:29:23 +0200
On 30-Jun-09, at 2:07 AM, Robert Paul wrote:
Karl Trogge wrote
It sounds like Leibniz to me.
We have a winner! You may collect your prize at the office of the
Mutton Philosophy Department, which is on the third floor of
Shepherd Hall, on the Mutton campus.
You, as a Leibniz scholar, will realize that duplicate prizes could
not be awarded.
Me - a WINNER? All those years of buying lottery tickets - nothing!
And now THIS - the BIG (you did say XXXL, didn't you?) PRIZE! Thank
you, Mr Paul.
Well, I suppose I can come out of the closet now and admit my Platonic
tendencies - which save me a trip to the Mutton Campus. I will merely
intuit the Eternal Form of the prize T-shirt ...
Hey, that looks GOOD! (And isn't it convenient, the way ONE size fits
ALL?)
The rest of you (as good Leibnizians) can do me the favour of looking
into the living mirrors of the universe that are your souls and tell
me how I look in it.
And, while you're at it - well, I must confess to a certain weakness
of the INNER eye; perhaps one or the other of you can help me.
Through assiduous practice of the Socratic discipline I climb the
epistemological ladder from opinion with its illusory beliefs to
knowledge - yet my vision (fallible mortal that I am) remains somewhat
imperfect.
I mean, I see the T-shirt quite clearly; the Mutton College logo and
motto stand out as if engraved by lightning-strokes of REASON in the
bedrock of my CONSCIOUSNESS - and yet ...
Er, could someone please tell me what COLOUR it is?
Karl Trogge
Hamburg
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