Richard Dawkins: Favorite Book (fwd)

[Max Sawicky]

Thanks.  To think somewhere in America our tax dollars
are at work on this stuff.

mbs


> >> . . .  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.