Husserl’s Eyelashes

[Whitehead, Husserl, and Heidegger are batting eyelashes at you from
across the floor of some rollerdisco dreamland. Julie Andrews is
there, skating. An interbred clubfoot is also there as a sexual
object.]

Husserl: Consciousness is intentional. … where you see, “artificial
ears, noses, bridges, fingernails, warts, eyelashes, boils and humps,”
I see only eyelashes that catch a sense of an almost fetishistic
vision.

Whitehead: I feel ugly with no eyebrows or eyelashes. Someone wants
to touch me. What’s your idea of Husserl’s phenomenological approach?
[Deadly silence.] Oh my!

Heidegger: Does that tell you what drawings mean, i.e. what do eye
lashes mean in a drawing? You’re sitting on my eyelashes; an album of
cartoons.

Julie Andrews: I don’t wear false eyelashes (Her broomy eyelashes
fluttered slowly, like a shop floor being swept by janitor.)

Whitehead: You should start reading Hegel, Husserl, Merleau Ponty. …
under which you could see brains, eyelashes, joints like knees and
knuckles, internal organs, false teeth, fake wigs, toupees, false
eye-lashes, finger-nail polish, Nietzsche’s theory of value, and
Husserl’s phenomenology!

Julie Andrews: I love singing, and I came. That is the foundation of
phenomenology

Husserl: Most phenomenologists do not. believe … rub her eyelashes.
beniveen. her fbgers. It. was. just. nerves.

One thought on “Husserl’s Eyelashes

  1. Lovely. It’s a rewrite of William Butler Yeats’ “Dialogue of Self and Soul.” Right? (nudge, nudge) Right?

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