Excerpt from this play by Eugene Ionesco I got giggles from. More at plato.acadiau.ca/courses/educ/reid/ 4183/Materials/Teaching-topics/literature/rhino1.doc
LOGICIAN [to the Old Gentleman): Take a sheet of paper and calculate. If you take six paws from the two cats, how many paws are left to each cat?
OLD GENTLEMAN [to the Logician): One possibility is: one cat could have four paws and the other two...There could be one cat with five paws...and one cat with one paw. But would they still be cats, then?
LOGICIAN [to the Old Gentleman]: Why not?
OLD GENTLEMAN [to the Logician]: By taking two of the eight paws away from the two cats...we could have one cat with six paws...we could have one cat with no paws at all.
I'm pretty cool with Ionesco. We had to read Rhinoceros and The Bald Soprano in my junior year of high school, and I thought they were amusing, in a surrealistic, nonsensical way.
I was all out of luck, like a duck that died. I was all out of juice, like a moose denied.
Rhinoceros
Posted - 08/29/2004 : 04:15:40
How come we say Los Angeleez?