The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #78334 Message #1406826
Posted By: Bill D
12-Feb-05 - 12:16 AM
Thread Name: BS: This Thread's Not About...
Subject: RE: BS: This Thread's Not About...
"Nihilism, there is Nothing to It" --------------------------------------------------- "There is also a dialectic in Sartre which begins with being and its negation. The conceptualization of being (being-in-itself) and its negation (being-for-itself) is borrowed from Hegel, but the third stage, the stage of synthesis in Hegel, is repudiated. Sartre's dialectic is not dissolved or transcended in any synthesis; it is perpetual." ----------------------------------------------------------------- Last night I looked upon the stair. I saw nothin'. Nothin' was there. From my front porch to the top of the wall, There was lot's of nothin', nothin' at all.... Nothing.... A pree-ponderance of vacancy.
There's a man in town, he's goin' around, Spreadin' lots of nothin' all over the ground. I heard some passin' people say, "All that nothin' gets in the way.... There oughta be a law."
My wife said, "Honey, don't you know, Nothin' makes my flowers grow." So I figured I better lay in a supply And I went downtown, some nothin' to buy. Took along an empty... Wallet.
The man in the store, he smile an' say, "We got plenty o' nothin'; nothin' today. Boxes, bottles, cans, and jars, Semi-trailers and big boxcars,... All vacuum-packed.
He says, "How do you want it? Large or small? Fat or slender? Short or tall?" I says, "Gimme a slightly rounded pile, Empty as a politician's smile... Full of hot air.... Wrap it up as a gift."
Well, this song was written with nothin' in mind, Nothin' at all of any kind, Nothin' at all in any degree, Nothin' to it that I can see,... Nothin'... Nothin'... It just grew... Out of a poverty of intellect.