Richard Dawkins: Favorite Book (fwd)

William S. Lear rael at zopyra.com
Tue Dec 1 07:43:47 PST 1998


On Tue, December 1, 1998 at 10:00:06 (-0500) Max Sawicky writes:
>> . . . My favorite is Lacan's identification of the erect penis with the
>square root of minus one, . . .
>
>This is what I want someone to explain to me
>(the mathematical part).

Let:

x = sqrt(-1)

Therefore:

x * x = -1

Let:

x = phallus

Therefore:

phallus * phallus = -1

Or:

phallus = -1/phallus

which means:

A phallus is the (erect) inverted mirror image of itself. Or, a

phallus sees a world composed of only itself, distorted in the

complex mirror of a selfish existence.

Bill



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