Simpsons

[Andrew Clarke Walser]

On Monday, 28 October 1996, David Nevin Friedman wrote:

 My roomate and I are having an ongoing debate about the significance of
 the erotic cakes in the third dimension.

What if we considered the whole thing a version of the allegory of the
cave in Plato's REPUBLIC?  Homer the philosopher ascends from the
dimness of two-dimensionality to discover new objects of love . . .

Instead of eternal truths, of course, he finds angel-food breasts and
pudendal brownies -- but who wants to turn a Simpson into a Socrates?

				Andrew Walser
				University of Illinois-Chicago