As longtime followers know--
(DIGRESSION: And at this point, you're all longtime followers--we haven't gotten a new recruit in ages. The Solipsist needs fresh blood! Get on this, People! EOD)
(ADDITIONAL DIGRESSION: We sounded a little vampiric, just then. The Solipsist is not a vampire! Although he would like to be one. Get on this, too, People! EOAD)
--we have a semi-regular feature wherein we attempt to find "perfect sentences." It occured to us the other day, though, that we should not restrict our perfection-quest to matters linguistic. The world is full of perfection if one only allows oneself to spot it.
The human eye, for example, is so gosh-darn perfect that creationists hold it out as proof of God's existence, as nothing so thoroughly spot-on could conceivably have come about through something as messy as natural selection. (Why this should be the case is unclear to us, but willfully ignorant pseudo-scientists work in mysterious ways.) The egg, too, is a model of structural perfection--and it tastes great with cheese. And let us not overlook microwave popcorn; seriously, whoever came up with that one just, y'know, couldn't have done better.
So keep your perfect eyes out for more perfection, Solipsist Nation. And fry yourself up an omelet: You might get hungry during the search.
What do you mean there's "no new blood?" Why, just the other day I had my grandson sitting on my lap while I was reading your blog to him about your new super hero(he didn't think much of it--he spit up on me), but his Mother won't let him have a Facebook OR Myspace page! She's insisting he wait at least until he can sit up on his own. Until then, you can count me as 2 or 3 followers, one of which who is fairly new.
ReplyDeleteWhat do you mean by perfect?
1. Lacking nothing essential to the whole; complete of its nature or kind.
2. Being without defect or blemish: a perfect specimen.
3. Thoroughly skilled or talented in a certain field or area; proficient.
4. Completely suited for a particular purpose or situation: She was the perfect actress for the part.
5.
a. Completely corresponding to a description, standard, or type: a perfect circle; a perfect gentleman.
b. Accurately reproducing an original: a perfect copy of the painting.
6. Complete; thorough; utter: a perfect fool.
7. Pure; undiluted; unmixed: perfect red.
8. Excellent and delightful in all respects: a perfect day.
9. Botany Having both stamens and pistils in the same flower; monoclinous.
10. Grammar Of, relating to, or constituting a verb form expressing action completed prior to a fixed point of reference in time.
11. Music Designating the three basic intervals of the octave, fourth, and fifth.
In the grammatical sense, of course. In what other way could microwave popcorn be said to be "perfect."
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