The Key to Reading Burke

[Minnesotan]

So, I thought Burke hated me, but I realize I was just reading him wrong -- I was sober. I grabbed a glass of wine on Saturday night and sat down with Rhetoric of Motives, and it all made sense! The clouds parted, and I saw his meaning on the face of the moon.

Clearly the man was drunk when writing it, if I have to be drunk while reading it.

[melusine]

haha! Burke loves you. He's just like Heidegger.. Except it usually takes a bong hit or four to get Heidegger.

[CrisCain]

Heidegger!! I shudder at the thought...

[Minnesotan]

Immanuel Kant was a real pissant

Who was very rarely stable.

Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar

Who could think you under the table.

David Hume could out-consume

Wilhelm Freidrich Hegel,

And Wittgenstein was a beery swine

Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel.

There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya'

'Bout the raising of the wrist.

SOCRATES, HIMSELF, WAS PERMANENTLY PISSED...

John Stuart Mill, of his own free will,

On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill.

Plato, they say, could stick it away;

Half a crate of whiskey every day.

Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle,

Hobbes was fond of his dram,

And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart: "I drink, therefore I am"

Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed;

A lovely little thinker but a bugger when he's pissed!

[CrisCain]

love it!