January 16, 2001

  • Just a little rhyme from my childhood to set a tone:

    "It takes a dope... To kill a pope... But a dope who is true... To make fatal two. "

    Actually, this little rhyme usually took the form of a taunt:

    1st child (observing some stupidity on the part of 2nd child): "It takes a dope to kill a pope!"
    2nd child (typical response): "Shut up!"

    As a child, my invented riposte: "But it takes a real dope to kill two popes!"

    Now what the heck does that mean? Possibly that the universe is basically predatorial--and only our typical culturally-consensualized perception of it seems ever so much to render matters comfortably, cognizantly numb. Moreover, that some important truths lie beyond our five senses as we experience them.


    Beyond that, as Ludwig Wittgenstein, 20th century Austrian philosopher, once admonished: "Of that which we cannot speak, we must consign to silence."


    Well... perhaps so... for a time being.

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