Now you see him, now you don’t (7/14/02)
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Femalien. [Sybil Richards, 1996.]
Alien anthropologist Vanesa/Venesa/Vanessa Talor/Taylor [recall Martin’s joke about the spelling of Sarah Jessica Parker’s name in
LA Story] descends from the empyrean via matter transport to visit Southern California, and wanders around Venice whispering anthropologist’s notes into her magic bracelet [apparently some combination of teleportation control and personal digital assistant] as she tries to figure out why the inhabitants of this planet keep ripping their clothes off and playing with one another’s thingies. Presently she enters into the spirit of things and starts ripping her own clothes off: Whoa Trigger.
This needed a couple of carchases and a few more explosions, but I did admire that dialogue among Socrates, Glaucon, Ms. Talor/Taylor, and the ponytailed chef who bakes cookies for the breakfast cafe on the nature of justice and the theory of ideas. However I’m not sure Socrates adequately addressed the objections of William of Ockham to the hypostatization of universals. — Of course, he may have been distracted when Vanesa/Venesa/Vanessa took her shirt off and started blasting with those nucleonic orgasmatrons. Philosophical detachment can only be carried so far.
____________Black art deco (5/21/02)
