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Item the First: This site is driving me nutso, in that I'm starting to have irreverent mental commentaries in the form of lists whenever I observe things happening around me. Help?
Item the Second: Last Wednesday, on the 26th of August in the Year of Our Lord 2009, I, along with Kari, eviscerated a very dead, and very pregnant, cat. Also, we broke its jaw, sternum, and ribs. And I might as well mention that we accidentally performed dental surgery on a (very dead, and very pregnant) feline. The things we do forour grades science!
I have a sneaking suspicion that all the cats I've encountered since the start of the semester know what I did to their brethren. Or am I just projecting?
Item the Third: I just had a geekgasm of the very worst kind. While reading the first chapter of Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals, I suddenly realized that while Kant was discussing what it means to do one's duty, he was talking about Mr. Darcy. ( An excerpt from the chapter )
Now, I have two theories as to why Mr. Darcy is intimately tied to Immanuel Kant's concept of the Categorical Imperative.
Item the Fourth: Methinks I shall get sick this weekend, judging from the cough I seem to have developed overnight. My immune system sucks. Leucocytes, verily ye art made of fail.
Item the Second: Last Wednesday, on the 26th of August in the Year of Our Lord 2009, I, along with Kari, eviscerated a very dead, and very pregnant, cat. Also, we broke its jaw, sternum, and ribs. And I might as well mention that we accidentally performed dental surgery on a (very dead, and very pregnant) feline. The things we do for
I have a sneaking suspicion that all the cats I've encountered since the start of the semester know what I did to their brethren. Or am I just projecting?
Item the Third: I just had a geekgasm of the very worst kind. While reading the first chapter of Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals, I suddenly realized that while Kant was discussing what it means to do one's duty, he was talking about Mr. Darcy. ( An excerpt from the chapter )
Now, I have two theories as to why Mr. Darcy is intimately tied to Immanuel Kant's concept of the Categorical Imperative.
- Theory the First: Jane Austen had read what Kant had to say about duty and morality, and decided to base one of her male heroes on his idea of the 'moral man'
- Theory the Second: A rabid Austenite, from a period when time travel is possible, and who found the same parallels as I did, travelled back to the 18th century and provided Mr. Kant with a copy of P&P, assuming that he'd like what he'd read, not knowing that Kant had in fact not yet started writing about the Categorical Imperative. Kant, upon finishing the novel, then developed a fanboy crush on Mr. Darcy and decided that Mr. Darcy is indeed the very best kind of man. Thus the Categorical Imperative is born, thereby establishing a paradox.
Item the Fourth: Methinks I shall get sick this weekend, judging from the cough I seem to have developed overnight. My immune system sucks. Leucocytes, verily ye art made of fail.
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