The weather is warming up, the snow is melting, and the squirrels are constantly demanding food, running up the window screen in my office and banging on it to alert me to their needs (they’re like cats!). Meanwhile, we have a very cryptic Hili dialogue today, but Malgorzata provides an explanation:
Against my sage advice Andrzej posted this dialogue without any explanation. But I think that this link makes the dialogue a bit less mysterious.
A: Do you like Plato?
Hili: To be honest, I prefer a platypus.
In Polish:
Ja: Czy lubisz Platona?
Hili: Uczciwie mówiąc, wolę dziobaka.
From the referenced work:
I think what Hili is saying is that the real world of the senses, represented by the platypus, is preferable to a philosophy that holds, as Plato (or at least, Socrates) did, that the material world is not real.
Platypuses, man. Also, cows.
As the very thick Joey from Friends famously said, “It’s moo!”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLwYpSCrlHU
Hili, I totally get you.
The point is indeed moo.
That must be one of those old-fashioned square cows. Today’s hip cows go, “Meh.”
b&
I’d never heard of that book and it seems like a fun idea — good reviews on Amazon too.
Sage advice?
Salvia officinalis is very nice added to stuffing!
🙂
Somebody just gave me some sage tea, which is really quite good.
That book is on my coffee table. I also like Aristotle and and Aardvark go to Washington.
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