Tuesday, September 04, 2007

Bagels and Nothingness

“Being” seems to be both “immediate” and simple, but reflection reveals that it itself is, in fact, only meaningful in opposition to another concept, “nothing.”

That's from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, entry on Hegel.

When reading Hegel,
Eating a bagel
Helps one to see
Just how a key
Part of the whole
Is nothing - a hole.

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