Harlequin: Argument from analogy

Dying/broken/forgiven.... now I begin

Born: 17-06-56....gemini.... monkey
re-born: 3-09-80
born again\found: 14-04-08
other notable dates: 10-03-68; 03-09-87; 23-03-96;
1-05-98; 31-01-02; 5-04-04

Interests: movement, stressed/transgressive embodiment, lived experience (body\space\time\relation)
expression ( word, dance, text, image, story, music, poetics)
learning, yielding......

Hopes for the blog:
offer up the wild intersectedness of lived experience and engage others in creative, expressive, perhaps irreverant, hopefully playful, and respectful encounters....
enact kindness
create moments of pause for disclosure, discovery, stillness

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Argument from analogy

A ninety-year-old man went to his physician and said, " My eighteen-year-old wife is expecting a baby."
The physician said, " Let me tell you a story. A man went hunting, but instead of a gun, he picked up an umbrella by mistake. When a bear suddenly charged at the man, he picked up the umbrella, shot the bear, and killed it."
The 90-year-old guy said, " Impossible. Somebody else must have shot the bear."
The physician said, " My point exactly!"

..... this little gem is from a wonderful book: Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar... understanding philosophy through jokes, by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein.
( Penguin; 2007)