Dragons
A placeholder while I catch up on posts and replies. It was a good birthday! Thank you all!
Everyone knows that dragons don't exist. But while this simplistic formulation may satisfy the layman, it does not suffice for the scientific minded. The School of Higher Neantical Nillity is in fact wholly unconcerned with what does exist. Indeed, the banality of existence has been so amply demonstrated, there is no need for us to discuss it any further here. The brilliant Cerebron, attacking the problem analytically, discovered three distinct kinds of dragon: the mythical, the chimerical, and the purely hypothetical. They were all, one might say, nonexistent, but each non-existed in an entirely different way...
Excerpted from "The Cyberiad" by Stanislaw Lem
While I thought many of you might enjoy this post, I'm thinking it may resonate for some of you in particular.
What do you think?
Everyone knows that dragons don't exist. But while this simplistic formulation may satisfy the layman, it does not suffice for the scientific minded. The School of Higher Neantical Nillity is in fact wholly unconcerned with what does exist. Indeed, the banality of existence has been so amply demonstrated, there is no need for us to discuss it any further here. The brilliant Cerebron, attacking the problem analytically, discovered three distinct kinds of dragon: the mythical, the chimerical, and the purely hypothetical. They were all, one might say, nonexistent, but each non-existed in an entirely different way...
Excerpted from "The Cyberiad" by Stanislaw Lem
While I thought many of you might enjoy this post, I'm thinking it may resonate for some of you in particular.
What do you think?