RE: The Quest for the Purpose of Life

From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Wed Jan 23 2002 - 19:43:47 MST


At 01:40 PM 1/23/02 -0500, Rafal wrote:

> Damien Broderick asked: Why did the mome rath outgribe?

### Maybe because the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe.

No, they might have done it anyway; the obvious explanation is `Because it
was brillig', but I distrust causality of that post-hoc-ergo-propter-hoc
kind. Rathsome outgribing might have *contributed* to the brilligness.

Damien Broderick



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