Philosophy

So this past Sunday was the Tokyo international bookfair, we picked up some rather good books on the cheap, which includes various philosophical works (Derrida's Positions, an overview of western philosophy by some Englishman, and some more Schopenhaur) as per my new obsession. But I also picked up a Pratchett novel that I hadn't read The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, based on an older obsession, This led me to read a short story of Pratchett's found online "Death and the Philosopher" which more or less leads me to this quote and leaves me feeling a bit silly, a bit stupid, and mainly overjoyed

"LET ME PUT FORWARD ANOTHER SUGGESTION: THAT YOU ARE NOTHING MORE THAN A LUCKY SPECIES OF APE THAT IS TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THE COMPLEXITIES OF CREATION VIA A LANGUAGE THAT EVOLVED IN ORDER TO TELL ONE ANOTHER WHERE THE RIPE FRUIT WAS?"


Try taking this as a compliment, really. Anyway, when your life begins to revolve around language, or a few in particular not for actuall use but as a hypothetical object set to be transfered between parties, wait what the hell am I talking about it is two in the morning. Also are coney and bunny from the same root word?

Trivia the name coney island, is a slur (derogatory discriptor?) on people who went there and engaged in rabbit like activities. Well known for its salad bars yes?


pip pip hooray!