G’day Jack,
Yes best to avoid Bart. I don’t think it’s something confined to Australians or engineers. He is almost universally detested as a serial pest and is most likely hairy and unwashed if the hydrophobia is anything to go by. He has eighteen names for snow – none of them mean what you think you they mean – and lives alone in the Minnesotan wilderness with only cougars for company. He has been driven insane by loneliness and alienation and inflicts this on the rest of us with wild and incoherent manifestos. I can see more than a smidgeon of resemblance to the unabomber.
If tempted to respond – it is safest simply go off into a totally disconnected rant of your own with no semblance at all to Socratic discousre. Think steam of consciousness rather than Wittgenstein. That way logic and rationality is assumed not to apply from the get go and you are spared the effort of trying to work out what the hell is going on.
Robert I Ellison
