Saturday: Hili dialogue (and Leon lagniappe)

March 5, 2016 • 6:15 am

It’s S(C)aturday, and I’m still suffering from lack of sleep, which is, both literally and figuratively, getting tiring. But in 12 days I’ll be in India, and perhaps I’ll sleep there. On this day in 1770, the Boston Massacre took place, rousing animus against the British that later contributed to our War of Independence.  On March 5, 1836, Samuel Colt patented a .34 caliber revolver: the first mass-produced revolver in history. In 1933, the Great Depression began with government closure of all banks and freezing of assets, and, on that same day, the Nazi Party got a plurality in German elections, enabling it to take control of the country. Notable births on this day include Rosa Luxemberg (1871), Louis Kahn (1901), Lynn Margulis (1938), and Penn Jillette (1955). Those who died on this day include Edgar Lee Masters (1950), Joseph Stalin (1953), Patsy Cline (1963), Jay Silverheels (“Tonto”; 1980), John Belushi (1982; age 33), and Duane Gish (2013).

Meanwhile in Dobrzyn, Hili’s thoughts are beyond my ken. Readers are welcome to figure out what she’s saying.

Hili: Do we live in an era of virtual philosophy?
A: So it seems.
Hili: This is a total abstraction.
(Photo: Sarah Lawson)
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In Polish:
Hili: Czy żyjemy w epoce wirtualnej filozofii?
Ja: Na to wygląda.
Hili: To jakaś totalna abstrakcja.
(Zdjęcie: Sarah Lawson)
And, in Wroclawek, the Dark Tabby is raring to go:

Leon: Hey, let’s finally go for a walk!

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12 thoughts on “Saturday: Hili dialogue (and Leon lagniappe)”

  2. Sounds like Hili has gone postmodern. She’ll be talking about hermeneutics soon. Poor cat.

    Yes, what’s in India. You probably won’t be talking about atheism there… 😉

  3. I think the 3.2 million people who were unemployed by this date in 1930 would dispute calling the 1933 bank holiday the start of the Great Depression (but I’m a geologist, not an economist).

    1. Yes, the 1933 date might better be called the beginning of the attempt to fix the great problem but the economist would likely be looking for x number of negative quarters, blah, blah. We are pretty sure that fixes did not start until Hoover was sent back to Iowa where many sad republicans seem to be.

    2. Like the joke about the biologist, chemist, physicist, and economist arguing about the nature of God. The biologist said that God must be a biologist, since life is the greatest of his creations. The chemist argued that life depends on chemistry, so he must be a chemist. The physicist, of course, pointed out that chemistry depends on physics, since without it there would be only chaos. The economist asked, “who do you think created the chaos?”

  7. Professor, do you sleep on your side? Which side? Left? Try lying on your right. I can’t fall asleep on my left side – can’t turn off my brain. I turn over onto my right side and it’s like a switch has gone off and I’m asleep within minutes. My theory? Lying on my left stimulates the right side of my brain. Apparently the right side has something to do with keeping you alert. So by lying on my right side I’m no longer stimulating the right side of the brain, and therefore I no longer feel too alert to sleep. Just my observations over the years and my admittedly amateur theory. Then again, it could be a simple cure for insomnia!

    1. Serious foreshortening. And probably a well-stopped-down lens to get the depth of field.

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