parody in progress

I’ve also been working intermittently on a piece called Dialogue on a Forest Path Between a Dragon, a Snake, and a Puppy. This new Heidegger volume puts me in the mood to resume work on it.

The dragon and the puppy do most of the heavy lifting. For the most part the snake just hisses, in the closest approximation to Meno that an animal can make.

As recently as June of 1999 I had no intention of following an academic career, and if I had pursued the planned other options, you’d have seen more of these sorts of things from me much earlier. Now that I’m probably never going to be fired by anyone, there’s more freedom to experiment with genres again. What it means is that I’ve resurrected a number of incomplete manuscripts from around 1997-98 recently (Circus Philosophicus will merely be the first of them to go into print). There’s another fairly outrageous one set at DePaul and entitled Gallagher’s Grill and Tavern. I had to put all that stuff aside as an Assistant Professor, but now there’s more room for fun with the philosophy.