I've figured out why it takes me so long to get any work done: I expend the lion's share of my mental energies getting into arguments about metaphor, flirtation, the phrase "as it were", and related matters (starting around comment 49). This is supposed to be what I do when not doing things philosophical. (Or at least one of the many what-I-dos-when-etc.)
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July 30, 2007
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Posted by: mealworm | July 31, 2007 at 02:30 AM