Irina Lindqvist
"and that's why a tree will continue to be"
Ronald Knox, God in the Quad
The Complete Limerick Book (1924)
noir de mars watercolor 80x60cm
noir de mars watercolor 80x60cm
God in the Quad
There was a young man who said "God
Must find it exceedingly odd
To think that the tree
Should continue to be
When there's no one about in the quad."
Reply:
"Dear Sir: Your astonishment's odd;
I am always about in the quad.
And that's why the tree
Will continue to be
Since observed by, Yours faithfully, God."
Ronald Knox, priest, theologian
The topic of this limerick and the following one based on George Berkeley's philosophical principle, "To be is to be perceived".
noir de mars watercolor 80x60cm
noir de mars watercolor 80x60cm
"and that's why a tree will continue to be" watercolor 200x210 cm
watercolor 100x210 cm
"and that's why a tree will continue to be"
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