Cows don’t have a quivering ______ .
I had a philosophy of law class yesterday that was so good I forgot to take notes. The only thing I remember is the above phrase, but I forget the end. It came in the middle of something about ontology and the dichotomy of “just being” and constant change and the problems human beings create for themselves by being aware of the quivering something of everything changing and how logos is the root of those problems because it makes us separate ourselves from the fact of our being. But cows don’t have that problem. It is so fantastically awesome to be in a class (in law school, remember) where you can answer the prof’s question of why you’re in the class with, “One thing that I’m interested in is language and how law regulates every aspect of our lives through language but no one ever looks at the language to realize that it’s flawed and impossible” and the prof is like, “Yes! That’s exactly it. Law has always felt to me like a translation.” Then he went off on something else and he lost me a bit after that, but still…. Awesome.