To: betty boop
Plato once defined Man as a "featherless biped." Diogenes the plucked a chicken and pointed out, "This is Plato's Man." Plato then added the qualifier "with broad nails."
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75 posted on
09/27/2003 9:12:56 PM PDT by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
To: Doctor Stochastic
Never say that Plato was lacking for a sense of humor, dear Doctor.
76 posted on
09/27/2003 9:14:06 PM PDT by
betty boop
(God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world. -- Paul Dirac)
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