VLVL(5) At the Movies and on the Tube

Terrance lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Wed Sep 10 11:01:45 CDT 2003



> 
> The Cartesian approach is under revision.

Revision. There is not time for revision. There will be not time to turn
back and (a)(d) escend the stair ... with a bald spot obscured neath
Rogained postmodern hair.  

Descarte's method consists in reducing involved and obscure propositions
step by step to simpler ones, and then ascending by the same steps from
the intuition of all those that are entirely simple to the cognition of
all the others. 

see rules IV and V discourse on method and rules for the direction of
the understanding 

I think that the Hobbes Lawn Care family in VL is not simply a rehashed
and less funny CL49 gag, but more 17th century logistics parody. 

When a man reasoneth, hee does nothing else but conceive a summe totall. 

Another example of a bad  LSD trip.



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