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...about an ancient Pharaoh's tomb containing dried seeds that sprouted when planted and watered-thousands of years after they were first interred. The truth of the tale has yet to be proved, but common chickweed seeds have germinated after lying dormant for more than three decades; Oriental lotus seeds, after about 1,000 years. Such long survival, despite heat, cold or even radiation, is managed by the seed when it enters anabiosis -a state of suspended animation in which its metabolism stops, its skin hardens and thickens, and its water content falls to about 10% of normal...
...facts. But the most effective rebellion against Hegelianism was carried out by two groups-the analytic philosophers, who prevail in U.S. and British universities, and the partisans of phenomenology and existentialism, who predominate in Western Europe. On some U.S. campuses, they are known as "the logicians and the lotus-eaters...
...Rise of the Lotus-Eaters...
Both movements, the logicians as well as the lotus-eaters, appear to do away with what has usually been considered the very heart of philosophy: metaphysics, the attempt to comprehend through reason the nature of reality. In The Conditions of Philosophy, a current examination of the discipline, Mortimer Adler charges that the analytic thinkers abandon "first-order questions" that metaphysics used to ask-such as the nature of being, causation, free will-and are concerned mostly with second-order problems of method. The existentialists, on the other hand, continue to ask large-size questions, but because of their man-centered...
...that that's much trouble for Steve Kaplan's Ko-ko. Kaplan, who assumed a full lotus position at one point, wound himself around the stage. This bumbling hero writhed, dived, lurched, smirked, and stayed alive even to the bitter end. When he was on the stage with Michael Sargent, the pace quickened and the laughter was ready for them before they opened their mouths. Sargent was Poo-bah, the Lord High Everything Else, a tall, grumbling hypocrit he portrayed almost perfectly. When he smiled a rare smile, he wrinkled every patch of skin...