answering doug

[Paul Mackin]

Doug Millison wrote:

> At 6:22 AM +0200 8/10/02, Otto wrote:>
> >Your prejudices & rejection of the postmodernist literary theories (Food for
> >Thought versus Starvation Diet) are simply silly,
>
> Perhaps because you haven't understood the joke. It was a dig at Mackin's
> tendency to trivialize whatever he comments upon.

I understood Doug's interpretation of his comment on my food for thought post
but also liked Otto's interpretation.

Think I was just riffing on Augustine's idea that man's self-consicousness and
contemplation of himself was a reflection of the Trinity. By a kind of fanciful
logic I reasoned that without the Trinity there would be no human consicousness.

It wouldn't just have been a case of:

il n'y a pas de hors-texte

but of:

ll n'y a pas de textes.

Now trivialize THAT.

:-)