No, no, seriously. We are talking wooing here.

The important thing is to focus on existence. Here we are on a ball of dust in the middle of nowhere, and we have to fashion our own existence from what we have and what we are. We need to examine experience, the strength of the day, the power of passionate experience. Embedded in this experience, and in our reaction to it, are all the answers we will ever have to all the questions we will ever ask.

This is what I offer you -- passionate experience, now. We can only find out what it means -- what it means for our existence -- what it makes meaningful of our existence -- by going deeply into it.

By this point, you could start taking his clothes off.

If this doesn't work, I suggest that you try a remark like: "Sartre -- who reads Sartre, except Stalinists. He completely misread Heidegger. Heidegger. Far more important than Sartre given the global technosphere. You might try Being and Time sometime."

yours,

Peter