It turns out our fellow PEA Souper Troy Jollimore has been doing a little non-philosophical dabbling on the side: he just won the National Book Critics Circle poetry prize for his first collection of poems, Tom Thomson in Purgatory. Read all about it here. Congratulations, Troy! Or perhaps I should express my congratulations in the form of the following haiku:
Philosopher rhymes
Syllogizing poem surprize
Jolli-evermore
Congratulations Troy and beautiful writing!
Hey, thanks! I love the smell of haiku in the morning . . .
Troy, the award is really terrific, and so is the poetry. Congratulations!
Hey, someone just told me that Michael Cholbi also achieved a small measure of fame this evening… Is that right, Michael? But that it didn’t go as well as you hoped…
Is that Cholbi teaser for a story just gonna sit there or is someone gonna deliver the punch line?
And Troy: that is amazing to be both a good philosopher and to be able to write movingly about issues that deeply touch the human condition.
I’d thought Sobel was going to say that it was amazing both to be able to write movingly about issues that deeply touch the human condition and to be a good poet.
And yes, what is this Cholbi story? I’m getting the vapors all a-tingly in anticipation.
http://tinyurl.com/2zcv3e
But I think the page will only last another day or two, so this comment will become obsolete even faster than my other ones.
Now that is cool! Mike (or anyone speaking on behalf of Mike), have you been on yet, or are you on tonight (Friday)??
This moral principle implies that it is always wrong to lie.
What is the categorical imperative?
Two haiku for Michael:
WHY PHILOSOPHERS MAKE SUCH GOOD JEOPARDY CONTESTANTS
Philosophy, it
is said, takes answers and turns
them into questions.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF WESTERN PHILOSOPHY, FROM THE TRIAL OF SOCRATES TO THE PRESENT DAY
Philosophy’s dawn:
a wise man in jeopardy.
Now it’s Cholbi’s turn.