At 07:24 PM 9/16/96 -0400, you wrote:
>I can't think of a joke told by Heidegger.
>
>'Heraclitus, Parmenides and a rabbi walk into a bar...'
>
>I can't see it.
>
>Wasn't it Gadamer who said that Heidegger wrote like a brontosaurus
>crashing through the jungle?
>
>P.S. has anybody read any of his poetry? It is truly frighteningly bad.
>I can post some if you want to see it.
>
>Chris D.
>
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Please do--I would love to hear some. As for Heidegger writing
about jokes, one could take a look at his little-known treatise, "Top Ten
Reasons Why Poetically Man Dwells."
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