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Carolyn Kunin "What you call the "first limerick" doesn't make sense without the second, so I think they are both the work of MRK, who, being a monsignor, was very Catholic, and being very Catholic, was very anti-atheism, which of course is part of the force of the limerick ..."
PS (Jansy Mello): The first limerick, by Monsignor Knox, is believed to have been addressed to the Bishop of Berkeley and his theory of "subjective idealism." Differently from your opinion about Catholic reasoning, the Bishop of Berkeley employed it in the cause of Faith.
While I was checking one of his more famous sentences (against infinitesimal calculus), I came across a wealth of information that, I confess, was lost on me. B.B's marvellous sentence ironizes "the ghosts of departed increments" and I'm happy to limit my enjoyment of it to how it sounds to me...
Words...words... "Knox" may sound like "Nox", "the Greek counterpart of Nyx, the Roman goddess of the night," mentioned in Ada.
There's a lot of information about Lucette and Nox in the VN-L archives. . .
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PS (Jansy Mello): The first limerick, by Monsignor Knox, is believed to have been addressed to the Bishop of Berkeley and his theory of "subjective idealism." Differently from your opinion about Catholic reasoning, the Bishop of Berkeley employed it in the cause of Faith.
While I was checking one of his more famous sentences (against infinitesimal calculus), I came across a wealth of information that, I confess, was lost on me. B.B's marvellous sentence ironizes "the ghosts of departed increments" and I'm happy to limit my enjoyment of it to how it sounds to me...
Words...words... "Knox" may sound like "Nox", "the Greek counterpart of Nyx, the Roman goddess of the night," mentioned in Ada.
There's a lot of information about Lucette and Nox in the VN-L archives. . .
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