¶ … Abstraction and Composition: Some literary 'riffs' on the poetic vignettes of Cortazar
The Possibilities of Abstraction
Once upon a time, I knew a student of philosophy who was frustrated in love. He produced a proof demonstrating to his beloved that she should put aside her doubts towards him. All men being equal, it did not matter what man she chose to spend the rest of her life with, so long as he was a man. The apparently insurmountable obstacle of her lack of attraction towards the student meant nothing, given that all human beings were composed, fundamentally, of the same atomic substances. Why not chose him as well as any man? He asked her. Thus, this abstract proof was presented to the young woman with great fanfare. She agreed wholeheartedly with the student, turned to the man sitting next to her in the auditorium (they were all sitting in a lecture hall, listening to a professor deconstructing Kant's works on aesthetic principles) and proposed marriage to the student's best friend, whom she barely knew.
The Possibilities of Abstraction 2 was also acquainted with a mathematics student, of the same university as my philosopher friend, whom accidentally defined himself into a different dimension, due to his overly taxing work upon a geometrical proof. The fire department was called, but to no avail. Only the intervention of a particularly illustrious member of the physics department enabled the poor boy to escape....
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