Richard Dawkins: Favorite Book (fwd)

Tom Lehman uswa12 at lorainccc.edu
Tue Dec 1 10:35:11 PST 1998


Dear Max,

When the hindsteiners involved start to analyze Pee-Wee Herman wake me up. I was a great fan of Pee-Wee's Playhouse.

Also, what do you make of the cryptic U812. Is this a secret code? Is it sort of like mrducks. Yes mr.

Somewhat sincerely, TL

Max Sawicky wrote:


> 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.



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