Republic
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Thoughtlets. LIV. “Your dog is a true philosopher.”
There are people who say Dog is God spelled backward. And that’s exactly what comes to mind every time my dogs lick cat vomit off the rug. It’s a behaviour akin to playing records backward to reveal Satanic messages. This way Doris Day, that way Linda Blair. Now don’t get me wrong. I love my Continue reading
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Saturday Morning Pam-toons. Plato’s Tent Revival. (scroll down)
The Light of Pure Reason ‘Well, that is what I call the child of the good’, I said. ‘The good has begotten it in its own likeness, and it bears the same relation to sight and visible objects in the visible realm that the good bears to intelligence and intelligible objects in the intelligible realm.’ Continue reading
