Dragons Just Want to be Parrots

Does a beak make the parrot?

It's time for yet another breakfast, and, just in time, here are some chocolate muffins from Amber's Delectable Delights.

Speaking of Jean-Paul Sartre, there's an interesting review in the November 26 Times Literary Supplement of some recent translations of, works by, and discussions of Sartre.

The reviewer, Jonathan Ree, discusses Sartre's affinities with Heidegger and Freud. He says Sartre sought to combine the two in "the idea that we are all unwitting fantasists, living our lives in terms of the tales we make up about ourselves...."

This is a big theme in many of Terry Pratchett's novels, though expressed in the context of witches, wizards, barbarians and the like. Stories, as he points out, are important. They have a way of defining things, and sometimes the worlds they define can be dangerous.

Here's a nice group photograph of a lot of demolition machines on the MCM Management site. Philosophy and Literature programs do not normally feature any courses on operating demolition equipment, though I think it would be a good idea.

If you're going to scrap your predecessor's arguments, or your colleagues' edifices, you should learn proper safety procedures so that bystanders don't get hurt, and you don't release toxic substances into the air.

Look before you leap....
He who hesitates is lost....

Ciao.....