Re: Wilkins Snubs Friends, Doesn't Tell Us He's Published Another

John S. Wilkins <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Michael Siemon <mlsiemon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <gi2g261csi8g3igdnot1hi7bueorq24sm0@xxxxxxx>,
r norman <r_s_norman@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 12:19:14 +1000, john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (John S.
Wilkins) wrote:

William Morse <wdNOSPAMMorse@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Mitchell Coffey wrote:
On Jun 25, 8:40 am, j...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (John S. Wilkins) wrote:
Walter Bushell <pr...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article
<033f27b2-7707-4ca5-9f0e-b09e46f20...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
com>, Mitchell Coffey <m.cof...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
There was an entire thread regarding it, discussion about it in
other threads, three Howlerfests built about the thing, and a
number of private discussions in email and in person. Other
than the private communications, this is all readily assessable
public record. Martinez is deliberately not telling the truth.
Martinez not telling the truth. I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell you.
No, Ray is right. This group should immediately be renamed
talk.wilkins.species and we should discuss nothing else. DIG, can
you make this happen?


As part of this new project, in Greenwich Village on your next
birthday we will be staging a dramatic reading of "Species: A History
of the Idea." Admission free, cash bar.

Wouldn't that be sort of like the Killer Joke in reverse? It would
work, but you'd have to manage to confine everyone until the
reading had completed its deadly work.

What, 320 pages leading up to a pun isn't worth it and exciting for
everyone?

The University of Michigan radio station WUOM once had a philosopher
reading Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (English translation) from
beginning to end in a series of nightly recordings that lasted, if my
memory serves, many months.

But, but ... there's no _pun_ at the end!

"If my reader has been kind and patient enough to accompany me on this
hitherto untravelled route, he can now judge whether, if he and others
will contribute their exertions towards making this narrow footpath a
high road of thought, that which many centuries have failed to
accomplish may not be executed before the close of the present---namely,
to bring Reason to perfect contentment in regard to that which has
always, but without permanent results, occupied her powers and engaged
her ardent desire for knowledge."

I'm sure there's a pun there somewhere. Possibly in the original...

Err....

Wenn der Leser diesen in meiner Gesellschaft durchzuwandern Gefälligkeit
und Geduld gehabt hat, so mag er jetzt urteilen, ob nicht, wenn es ihm
beliebt, das Seinige dazu beizutragen, um diesen Fußsteig zur
Heeresstraße zu machen, dasjenige, was viele Jahrhunderte nicht leisten
konnten, noch vor Ablauf des gegenwärtigen erreicht werden möge:
nämlich, die menschliche Vernunft in dem, was ihre Wißbegierde
jederzeit, bisher aber vergeblich, beschäftigt hat, zur völligen
Befriedigung zu bringen.

Still not seeing it. A bit of alliteration, maybe? Geez, who'd read that
much without a payoff?

I note that he realised he'd only have one reader. I wasn't that brave
as to note that myself.
--
John S. Wilkins, Philosophy, Bond University
http://evolvingthoughts.net
But al be that he was a philosophre,
Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre

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