An Apology to my Invective

[Dave Meury]

You wrote:

>Don't take me too serious. I'm just a jester that sometimes believes he is 
a philosopher.

Some loosely connected thoughts:

Nietzsche said (by way of his Zarathustra, I think) that he could not 
believe in a god who didn't dance.

Rationalism is considered one of the foremost modes of ordering or 
"translating" reality, but as you say, "translator / traitor."  And as 
Frost said, "Poetry is what gets lost in the translation."*

Dancing (used here in a very broad sense) to the music/poetry of the 
emotions' translation of experience is not necessarily a bad thing.  And 
humor, a powerful link between the rational and the emotional, if used for 
the right reasons, is holy.

* (Sure hope I'm not misquoting in here, somewhere.  But while I'm at it: 
"Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about." Oscar 
Wilde) -- at least not for too long.

Here endeth the perambulation.

Now finish your essay on Merleau-Ponty, but come back out and play when 
you're done.  Oh, and when you do, bring back the tent.

Cordially,

Dave