Subject: Re: Bio # 28
From: Jim Rovira (jrovira@drew.edu)
Date: Sun Oct 14 2001 - 17:37:27 GMT
28 is Kierkegaard -- Concluding Unscientific Postscript?
Jim
Omlor@aol.com wrote:
>
> Hey Rocky, watch me pull an autobiography out of my hat...
>
> Again?
>
> Nothin' up my sleeve....
>
> Starting from a principle is affirmed by people of experience to
> be a very reasonable procedure; I am willing to humor them, and so
> begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will
> prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this. This
> principle possesses the quality of being in the highest degree
> repellent, an essential requirement in the case of negative
> principles, which are in the last analysis the principles of all
> motion. It is not merely repellent, but infinitely forbidding; and
> whoever has this principle back of him cannot but receive an infinite
> impetus forward, to help him make new discoveries.
>
> Whoops, might be an interesting narrative, but wearin' this hat is
> just too big a leap.
>
> Now here's something we hope you'll *really* like...
>
> --John
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