[lit-ideas] Re: on the home front
- From: "David Wright" <wright@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:14:36 -0500
J. Mc wrote:We are featherless bipeds that exhibit a rough bilateral
symmetry. As the legend goes, when Plato first posited this definition,
Diogenes (not Laërtius, but the Cynic) grabbed a plucked chicken,
and delivered it to the doorstep of the Academy. So, Plato modified his
definiton to: '...with broad nails.' Bloody celebrities and their petty
feuds...but Diogenes was, like, so cool. broad nailed, broad shouldered,
broadly Cynical,d.
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