Ode to Kant

November 24, 2007 at 8:55 pm (Performative) ()

I don’t know!

How is it that you know that you don’t know?

Because I don’t have the answer!

How is it that you know that not having the answer means that you don’t know?

Because that’s what ‘I don’t know’ means!

How is it that you know that that’s what ‘I don’t know’ means?

I don’t know!

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Five Questions

November 24, 2007 at 8:54 pm (Performative) ()

  1. If life is perfect, how can you feel loss?
  2. If you cannot feel loss, how can anything be missed?
  3. If nothing can be missed, how can anything be loved?
  4. If nothing can be loved, how can life have meaning?
  5. If life has no meaning, how can life be perfect?

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