Lew Perin

For many months now, we’ve been watching one of those condo needles rise across the East River from us, between the Manhattan Bridge anchorages from our viewpoint. Our attitude has been basically “rich people are taking away another part of our view”.

Tonight, though, I have to admit it looks great at sunset.

#nyc

Apr 13, 2019 at 11:21pmAmaroq
Show threadLew PerinApr 13, 2019
Same scene, later
Show threadDoc Edward Morbius ❌​Apr 13, 2019
@wrenpile #2001monolith
Show threadLew PerinApr 13, 2019
@dredmorbius I’m an ape.
Show threadDoc Edward Morbius ❌​Apr 14, 2019
@wrenpile I'm a Space alien Cat, and I ask you, WHY WAS THERE A LEOPARD IN THAT SCENE?!!!
Show threadDoc Edward Morbius ❌​Apr 14, 2019

@wrenpile Humans always defeat lions in paintings because there are no lion painters.

http://bostonreview.net/philosophy-religion/marta-figlerowicz-myths-enlightenment

The Myths of Enlightenment

For the philosopher and intellectual historian Hans Blumenberg, myths and metaphors were pivotal to philosophical thinking, not opposed to it.

Show threadNate Cull (.social)Apr 14, 2019

@dredmorbius @wrenpile

I for one would watch the remake of 2001 where the leopard touches the Monolith and then we smash cut to cat people in space stations

Show threadEuphoria 💕Apr 14, 2019

@natecull

I'd watch that :)

@dredmorbius @wrenpile

Show threadLew PerinApr 14, 2019

@dredmorbius «They had to contain the germ of philosophical argument without quite articulating it, like metaphors with vivid vehicles but ambiguous tenors.»

I was never a fan of The Three Tenors, but Ambiguous Tenors? That’s the band name of any day.

Show threadLew PerinApr 14, 2019
@dredmorbius Mr. Kubrick made me promise not to tell anyone.