An exerpt from Sandra Boynton's book on:
Intellect and Chocolate chapter
"Much serious thought has been devoted to the subject of chocolate: What does chocolate mean? Is the pursuit of chocolate a right or a privilege? does the notion of chocolate preclude the concept of free will?
Yet even these most provocative lines of inquiry seemed to blur when the Rational Skepticists first posed that profound and unsettling question, "How do we know that chocolate exists?"
This had everyone stumped (and not a little depressed) for quite some time.
Then the Empiricists cam e along and pointed out that of course what we mean by "knowing" is "that which we learn through our senses." For example, we know that chocolate exists because we can taste it.* {footnote:this still leaves open the deeper question of wheter or not there exists a Supreme Bean}.
Some irksome individual- a Negativist- noted the resulting paradox: By the time the existence of chocolate is thus (that is, by tasting) confirmed, the chocolate no longer exists. [see picture of hippopotamus with empty plate and chocolate crumbs] It was the Capitalists who first realized that it does not really matter whether chocolate truly exists or not, as long as people buy it."
Thus so far, the reading of Sandra Boynton's Chocolate, the Consuming Passion.
This entry is dedicated to all four of us ex-apartment 9-ers, who, in a fashionably short time enjoyed a 7 pound bag of Ghirardeli semi-sweet chocolate chips. (but not all in one sitting)
And about Homecoming.
Homecoming was great, I mean Juuust Great. I mean, can you have More Fun than white Christmas lights on the overlook, some acceptable jazz band playing some sweet music, and dancing your heads off with some good friends? What could be better? The atmosphere! The melodrama! The spectacle!
And then, Burning at the Great Hall? Warm enough by the paper flames inside Carter, and definitely entertaining. Definitely. I declare we should have Homecoming Twice a Year. Having been a graduate all of 4 months, i do say it was pleasant to be surprised by some old friends who i wasn't sure when I'd see next after graduation day. Really good to see my friend Abby again. I was quite surprised to hear a familiar voice, and turn around to see it was Actually Her, as she didn't tell anyone she was coming.
And after such a long and happy weekend, i promptly did not fall asleep very well.
Posted by hackenstar at October 11, 2004 10:43 AMChocolate is my second-favorite drug, next to friendship.
Posted by: bob at October 12, 2004 09:26 AMPhilosophy consists in asking the right questions, and I think that you are asking the wrong question in inquiring whether chocolate exists. There is no doubt whether chocolate exists. Such a truth is the absolute upon which we center all our experience. The real question you must ask is whether we exist at all to enjoy it.
(And it probably only took 2 sittings to finish off the chocolate chips.)
Posted by: funkefreak at October 12, 2004 07:11 PMGREAT WALL OF CHOCOLATE--- I'm in Knoxville buisness with my boss, and we just had an 11 hour day timing traffic signals, and had dinner at a Chinese place where the menu included a "Great Wall of Chocolate". It was described as a seven layer chocolate creation; and if its existed in any manner similar to the Great Wall it is really, really old, can be seen from space, and has had portions of it stolen by peasants for building their houses. I never found out if it existed or not, because I was too stuffed to order it.
Posted by: thejollyswan at October 13, 2004 09:22 PMHehehehehee.
Ah looove you, Ratchel.
If the aforementioned Chinese restaurant at which the jolly swan was dining happened to be P.F. Chang's, then I can verify the existance of said Wall of Chocolate. It took six of us to completely dismantle it, even though I'm sure that satellites could detect its presence prior to our hearty enjoyment of its multiple layers of gravity-enhancing pleasure.
Posted by: funkefreak at October 14, 2004 12:08 PMthe jolly swan is quite relieved to hear that the Great Wall of Chocolate exists in such a dismantle-resistant state. Hmm... chocolate: the jolly swan thinks he'll go eat a peanut-butter tandycake from Tastycake...
Posted by: thejollyswan at October 15, 2004 01:29 PMo can it be? an entire great wall full of chocolate? What does it look like? can you fathomably walk the length of it?
Posted by: hackenstar at October 15, 2004 03:23 PM