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If you like your philosophy tempered with a heaping dose of laughter, you've got to read "The Philosopher's Joke" by British humorist Jerome K. Jerome. There's no ponderous beard-stroking to be found here -- instead, Jerome offers a fresh take on a classic thought experiment that's packed with wry observations and hilarious insight into human nature.

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Publié par	The Floating Press
Date de parution	01 mars 2012
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781775456254
Langue	English

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THE PHILOSOPHER'S JOKE
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JEROME K. JEROME

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The Philosopher's Joke First published in 1908 ISBN 978-1-77545-625-4 © 2012 The Floating Press and its licensors. All rights reserved. While every effort has been used to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the information contained in The Floating Press edition of this book, The Floating Press does not assume liability or responsibility for any errors or omissions in this book. The Floating Press does not accept responsibility for loss suffered as a result of reliance upon the accuracy or currency of information contained in this book. Do not use while operating a motor vehicle or heavy equipment. Many suitcases look alike. Visit www.thefloatingpress.com
The Philosopher's Joke
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Myself, I do not believe this story. Six persons are persuaded of itstruth; and the hope of these six is to convince themselves it was anhallucination. Their difficulty is there are six of them. Each one aloneperceives clearly that it never could have been. Unfortunately, they areclose friends, and cannot get away from one another; and when they meetand look into each other's eyes the thing takes shape again.
The one who told it to me, and who immediately wished he had not,was Armitage. He told it to me one night when he and I were the onlyoccupants of the Club smoking-room. His telling me—as he explainedafterwards—was an impulse of the moment. Sense of the thing had beenpressing upon him all that day with unusual persistence; and theidea had occurred to him, on my entering the room, that the flippantscepticism with which an essentially commonplace mind like my own—heused the words in no offensive sense—would be sure to regard the affairmight help to direct his own attention to its more absurd aspect. Iam inclined to think it did. He thanked me for dismissing his entirenarrative as the delusion of a disordered brain, and begged me not tomention the matter to another living soul. I promised; and I may as wellhere observe that I do not call this mentioning the matter. Armitageis not the man's real name; it does not even begin with an A. You mightread this story and dine next to him the same evening: you would knownothing.
Also, of course, I did not consider myself debarred from speaking aboutit, discreetly, to Mrs. Armitage, a charming woman. She burst into tearsat the first mention of the thing. It took me all I knew to tranquillizeher. She said that when she did not think about the thing she could behappy. She and Armitage never spoke of it to one another; and left tothemselves her opinion was that eventually they might put remembrancebehind them. She wished they were not quite so friendly with theEveretts. Mr. and Mrs. Everett had both dreamt precisely the same dream;that is, assuming it was a dream. Mr. Everett was not the sort of personthat a clergyman ought, perhaps, to know; but as Armitage would alwaysargue: for a teacher of Christianity to withdraw his friendship froma man because that man was somewhat of a sinner would be inconsistent.Rather should he remain his friend and seek to influence him. Theydined with the Everetts regularly on Tuesdays, and sitting opposite theEveretts, it seemed impossible to accept as a fact that all four of themat the same time and in the same manner had fallen victims to thesame illusion.