The bartender asks "why the long face?" The horse responds "I've just realized I'm a metaphysical concept residing within a fictional narrative and will cease to exist at the end of this sentence."
I heard a rumor that a certain 17th century metaphysical poet was cheap...
But who wants to tip a waitress who insists, before one has even finished the appetizer, that he must be Donne.
Chicken or egg?
One morning at breakfast I tried to engage my two daughters in a little metaphysical thinking. "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" I asked. My six year old said, "There had to be a chicken to lay an egg?" I pushed her: "But didn't there have to be an egg for the first chicken to hat...
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