animals in M&D

[Scott Badger]

>Yes a LOGICAl progression, evolutionary progression, not
>conditioning, not like the birds that watch TV or the
>Pavlovian dogs, right? These comments by out LED, follow
>Mason's question concerning the SOUL and the KOAN
>puzzle--satire--same problem Profane raises with SHOCK. So,
>the LED is not subversive of Pavlovian conditioning or
>Psychology at all, he is rather a satire of MAN in the age
>of Reason: "Tis the Age of Reason,rrrf? There is ever an
>explanation at hand, and no such thing as a talking
>dog,--Talking Dogs belong with Dragons and Unicorns. What
>there are, (and I think this may be Richard Romeo's point
>about MARGINS) however, are provisions for Survival in a
>world less fantastical." Dragons, Unicorns, talking dogs and
>Houyhnhnms.
>


If I'm catching his drift, I agree with Terrance here, the LED, the Duck and
also the Watch are the grails of our Age of Reason; artificial intelligence,
the reduction of animate to the inanimate, perpetual motion &c.  Ironikal
constructions that do, indeed, "belong with Dragons and Unicorns".

Scott