Originally posted by stocken
Nooo... I think Bosse is a nice person. Why call him a baboon?
Because he
is a baboon.
"Thus Dr. Faustroll is accompanied on his journeys (in a boat which is a sieve) by a baboon named Bosse-de-Nage, whose only linguistic expression is the exclamation 'ha ha.' There is a detailed analysis of this phrase, trying to reconstruct from it the baboon´s view of the world:
Pronounced quickly enough, until the letters become confounded, (ha ha] is the idea of unity. Pronounced slowly,is the idea of duality, of echo, of distance, of symmetry, of greatness and duration, of the two principles of good and evil. But this duality proves also that the perception of Bosse-de-Nage was notoriously discontinuous, not to say discontinuous and analytical, unsuited to all syntheses and to all adequations. One may confidently assume that he could only perceive space in two dimensions, and was refractory to the idea of progress, implying, as it does, a spiral figure.
It would be a complicated problem to study, in addition, whether the first A was the efficient cause of the second. Let us content ourselves with noting that since Bosse-de-Nage usually uttered only AA and nothing more (AAA would be the medical formula Amalgamate),he had evidently no notion of the Holy Trinity, nor of all things triple, nor of the indeterminate, nor of the Universe, which may be defined as the Several."
(from http://inicia.es/de/edfabra/BergerChapter11.htm )
It's all Alfred Jarry's fault.
How many non-chritian non-atheists are there on...
16 Dec '05 22:31
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