Re: [tied] Re: To be or not to be... or to have.

On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 12:33:48 +0000, Glen Gordon <glengordon01@...>
wrote:

>
>Torsten:
>>My dad claimed his first German textbook contained this conversation:
>>- Is that that your brother's hat.
>>- No, those are his gloves.
>
>But this is how Germans usually talk. They are known world-wide to
>be inquisitive existentialists afterall. And really, in the end, who can
>say whether it is a hat or two (or possibly three) gloves?

In the words of Dr. P., a glove is "a continuous surface, infolded on
itself. It appears to have ... five outpouchings." (Oliver Sacks, "The
man who mistook his wife for a hat")

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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