Short, fat, and of a quiet disposition, he appeared to spend a lot of money on really bad clothes, which hung about his squat frame like skin on a shrunken toad.
~ From "A Brief History of George Smiley" in Call for the Dead by John le Carré (p.1)
A phrase in Descartes' First Meditation that translates into English as: "but rather some malign genius". The act of absolute doubt comes into question when Descartes perceives this malicious demon ("an omnipotent, epistemic monster" - Carriero) to deceive him, and yet he does not question its existence as anything more than just a fiction.
Six Shooter from Chris on Vimeo.
No comments:
Post a Comment