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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

> 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")
>

Hm. You wouldn't know where on the net to find a picture of his wife?

Torsten