11 February 2005
massively insular post
Now, the comment below is really funny. Firmly agree with Adam that Roger is on the short list for comment of the year (but who would adjudicate such a thing? The Weblog?). Must confess, as I did last night, that I'm about five days from closing down the comments. Not only do I not really have enough time to read them properly, but I find myself feeling slightly hollow about the whole thing, though perhaps that is just the drink. I had imagined that a large bunch of comments would make me feel somehow happy and popular, like one of the pretty girls in 'Clueless' - but I was wrong. It just makes me apprehensive....
Hey, I'm beginning to suspect that IT is writing all the comments, including this one. It is sort of a variation on the barber who cuts all the hair in the regiment. The Russell references of "karpov" are the giveaway. The unlikeliness of two people threatening to beat each other up over the collected works of Quine and Badiou strains all our credibility. Surely this is meant to prod us, little by little, into thinking through Badiou's reading of Dedekind's was sind und was sollen die Zahlen and gaining an overall, sorta groovy, dramatic feeling for it. Humph! Well, I'm not standing for it -- that is, if I were an independent and real commentator, instead of a figment in Ms. IT's mind. Can a figment put a foot down? Hey, take away that hook, I'm not finished here!!! Not only will I compare my gre's with anybody, I will totally resent the insinuation that I bought them, and besides, they were expensive enough and it was my money...
Hey, I'm beginning to suspect that IT is writing all the comments, including this one. It is sort of a variation on the barber who cuts all the hair in the regiment. The Russell references of "karpov" are the giveaway. The unlikeliness of two people threatening to beat each other up over the collected works of Quine and Badiou strains all our credibility. Surely this is meant to prod us, little by little, into thinking through Badiou's reading of Dedekind's was sind und was sollen die Zahlen and gaining an overall, sorta groovy, dramatic feeling for it. Humph! Well, I'm not standing for it -- that is, if I were an independent and real commentator, instead of a figment in Ms. IT's mind. Can a figment put a foot down? Hey, take away that hook, I'm not finished here!!! Not only will I compare my gre's with anybody, I will totally resent the insinuation that I bought them, and besides, they were expensive enough and it was my money...
