Quoth Gerry, “Why should a lobster be any more ridiculous than a dog? Or a cat, or a gazelle, or a lion, or any other animal that one chooses to take for a walk? I have a liking for lobsters. They are peaceful, serious creatures. They know the secrets of the sea, they don’t bark, and they don’t gobble up your monadic privacy like dogs do. And Goethe had an aversion to dogs, and he wasn’t mad!”
“Why should a lobster be any more ridiculous than a dog? Or a cat, or a gazelle, or a lion, or any other animal that one chooses to take for a walk? I
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The real ‘beauty’ of it is when you finish your walk, you can place the lobster or crab in a steaming pot, then eat it for dinner.
Do that with a dog or cat and people will look at you funny.
Maybe not so much in China but..........
I have a liking for lobsters too. Especially with drawn butter.
So, what does monadic mean? you tell me.
mo·nad (mnd) n.
1. Philosophy An indivisible, impenetrable unit of substance viewed as the basic constituent element of physical reality in the metaphysics of Leibniz.
2. Biology A single-celled microorganism, especially a flagellate protozoan of the genus Monas.
3. Chemistry An atom or a radical with valence 1.
[Latin monas, monad-, unit, from Greek, from monos, single
monadic (mɒˈnædɪk) adj
1. (Logic) being or relating to a monad
2. (Logic) logic maths (of an operator, predicate, etc) having only a single argument place
3. (Mathematics) logic maths (of an operator, predicate, etc) having only a single argument place