Harry Pollard wrote:
>
> Brad,
[snip]
> Your Don Juan paragraph is ill-directed to someone who spent 57 years with
> one woman.
I apologize for your misreading what I wrote as a personal
accusation instead of as a question about the
implications of the depersonalized
hypothesis that man's desires are unlimited.
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If man's desires are unlimited then Don Juan seems to
me to be a good example of our nature.
But there
are other ways to be infinitely insatiable. Business
merger maniacs are another kind.
One cannot satisfy
all infinite desires concurrently. You gotta pick and
choose, and having infinitely many women means one
probably cannot have infinitely many corporate acquisitions,
and either of these means you cannot have infinitely many hubcaps
collected from the side of the road.
One can only
do one thing at a time (more or less...) -- unless
one has: EMPLOYEES! Then one can vicariously pursue
as many kinds of grabbing more and more, as one has
vicarious hands to grab with....
So if man's desires are infinite, then the most infinite
man is the one who has infinitely many employees to
satisfy as many infinite desires as possible at once --
vicariously, however....
\brad mccormick
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