RE: virus: Richard Dawkins? I... have, erm... a...

Dave Pape (davepape@dial.pipex.com)
Wed, 19 Feb 1997 13:16:48 GMT


At 20:06 17/02/97 -0800, RB wrote:
>Dave Pape wrote:
>
>>I'm not Richard Dawkins, of course. It's another minuet at our
>>masquerade of
>>the mind. If you give a toss anymore after my last post... any hints
>>about
>>how to approach him? Should I, like... groom him? Or just swagger up
>>and
>>sniff his arse, and stuff?
>
>I wish you'd ask the serious questions when you're not stoned, Dave.

1 I wasn't. I was wired to the hilt on caffeine, sleep-deprived, and
I'd had a can of beer. Don't impute my mental states in public, mister.

2 Why shouldn't I ask questions when I'm caned, if you're allowed to
ask them when on "fine wine and fine cigars"? Part of what got me into
thinking about memetics and group cognitive processing in the first place
was a period of sometimes stoned self-reflection. It got me started, so I'm
not going to do the chemical down.

>If you're still interested in the morning, I'm afraid I can't be of much
>help.
>So go, and be disillusioned. He can't bring forth juniper berries except
>from a damn juniper bush.

Hey, cheers, maybe this'll help proof me against being too in awe of him. Peace.

Dave Pape
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