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From: mps@duke.cs.duke.edu (Michael P. Smith)
Newsgroups: sci.philosophy.tech
Subject: Re: Beckett and the nature of knowledge
Message-ID: <9902@duke.cs.duke.edu>
Date: Sun, 12-Jul-87 11:05:43 EDT
Article-I.D.: duke.9902
Posted: Sun Jul 12 11:05:43 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 13-Jul-87 01:14:11 EDT
References: <9889@duke.cs.duke.edu> <8707120611.AA22416@brahms.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: mps@duke.UUCP (Michael P. Smith)
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Keywords: knowledge, Beckett, Descartes
Summary: Footnote: Descartes

In article <8707120611.AA22416@brahms.Berkeley.EDU> obnoxio@brahms.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student) writes:
>In article <9889@duke.cs.duke.edu>, mps@duke (Michael P. Smith) writes:
>>I know that I am sitting here, by this computer, wearing shorts,
>>holding this book in my hands, and so on. ...
>
>    I, of whom I know nothing, I know my eyes are open, because
>    of the tears that pour from them unceasingly.  I know I am
>    seated, my hands on my knees ...
>				--Samuel Beckett _The Unnameable_
>
>ucbvax!brahms!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720

I should add, so everyone may get the joke, that both Beckett and I
were parodying Descartes in the first of his "Meditations on First
Philosophy." 

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"A good man is not required to have read every book or diligently
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