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Arts & Humanities: Poetry: “Question: O powerful lovers of Sophistry: are we to accept that the kidnapped woman may obtain the sperm of the violinist?” plus 5 more

Arts & Humanities: Poetry: “Question: O powerful lovers of Sophistry: are we to accept that the kidnapped woman may obtain the sperm of the violinist?” plus 5 more


Question: O powerful lovers of Sophistry: are we to accept that the kidnapped woman may obtain the sperm of the violinist?

Posted: 25 Mar 2015 05:01 PM PDT

O powerful lovers of Sophistry, can you enlighten all ignorant, over-privileged persons by answering this simple question. In the most outlandish and creative vignette, a vignette which is faithfully copy-and-paste reproduced somewhat below of this very line,

You wake up in the morning and find yourself back to back in bed with an unconscious violinist. A famous unconscious violinist. He has been found to have a fatal kidney ailment, and the Society of Music Lovers has canvassed all the available medical records and found that you alone have the right blood type to help. They have therefore kidnapped you, and last night the violinist's circulatory system was plugged into yours, so that your kidneys can be used to extract poisons from his blood as well as your own. [If he is unplugged from you now, he will die; but] in nine months he will have recovered from his ailment, and can safely be unplugged from you.
-JUDITH JARVIS THOMSON

are we to accept that the kidnapped woman may obtain the sperm of the violinist? Any one who can answer this simple question shall be best bestowed with the brightest stars of the best answers, provided the most powerful and omniscient entities of this place happen to concur in the legitimacy of this entreaty to the most knowledgeable lovers of that very thing.

Question: How does a poem achieve "Ars Poetica"?

Posted: 25 Mar 2015 04:45 PM PDT

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