Freddie Freeman, pt. 2
John-Paul: “Children, what should I blog about?”
Samuel: “Blog that we’re getting a new brother – ‘Pip’.”
A heartwarming answer.
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Let us again salute Freddie Freeman, who has homered in every game of this World Series. (As I type, it’s the third inning of Game 3.)
Freeman looks just like Mike, my next-door neighbor. Talks like him, too.
I mentioned it.
“It’s been pointed out before,” Mike said. “It’d be nice to be him.”
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Is it strange that I want to read a 900+ pp. textbook of British criminal law?
Is my anglophilia/crime lit appetite out of control?
Today I learned of Lon Fuller’s “speluncean explorers” (1949), which I am a little ashamed not to have come across before. I had read about R v Dudley and Stephens (1884) and Philippa Foot’s “fat man stuck in the cave mouth” (1967), a sort of Lon-Fuller-Meets-Winnie-the-Pooh scenario (see p. 7; Foot says the case is “well known to philosophers,” although I confess I don’t know who previously discussed it).
Similar cases involve the shipwrecked guys who fight over a plank; and, in Candide, James the Anabaptist, whose plight, perhaps not interesting to the theorist, is (I hope) especially poignant to the person on the street.
Samuel: “Blog that we’re getting a new brother – ‘Pip’.”
A heartwarming answer.
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
Let us again salute Freddie Freeman, who has homered in every game of this World Series. (As I type, it’s the third inning of Game 3.)
Freeman looks just like Mike, my next-door neighbor. Talks like him, too.
I mentioned it.
“It’s been pointed out before,” Mike said. “It’d be nice to be him.”
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
Is it strange that I want to read a 900+ pp. textbook of British criminal law?
Is my anglophilia/crime lit appetite out of control?
Today I learned of Lon Fuller’s “speluncean explorers” (1949), which I am a little ashamed not to have come across before. I had read about R v Dudley and Stephens (1884) and Philippa Foot’s “fat man stuck in the cave mouth” (1967), a sort of Lon-Fuller-Meets-Winnie-the-Pooh scenario (see p. 7; Foot says the case is “well known to philosophers,” although I confess I don’t know who previously discussed it).
Similar cases involve the shipwrecked guys who fight over a plank; and, in Candide, James the Anabaptist, whose plight, perhaps not interesting to the theorist, is (I hope) especially poignant to the person on the street.