Thursday, January 19, 2012
The name of the rose
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma,
a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt
to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
-- Umberto Eco
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the underlying truth is those great nipples above
ReplyDelete"If there's no meaning in it," said the King, "that saves a world of trouble, you know, as we needn't try to find any".
ReplyDelete"And yet I don't know", he went on, "I seem to see some meaning in it, after all".
The Reverend Lewis Carroll in Alice in Wonderland.
But Umberto Eco is right: and that's way all philosophical systems have miserably failed.