24 May 2001 - Rainyday Cart

Once upon a time there lived a fellow named Rainyday. He was a thoughtful man who loved puzzles, but often went hungry because he didn’t feel like weeding the garden. One day a friendly shopkeeper offered, “I’ll give you a sweet potato if you can solve the problem of existence by Kantian analytic a priori methods involving the unity of the plurality of the totality of the axioms of intuition. Are you up to it?”

Of course Rainyday took up the challenge, but he found it difficult to demonstrate the necessity of the reality of the totality of what is. Every day he sat under a three-limbed tree, thinking.

Finally his patient mother protested. “Rainyday, why aren’t you in the garden? The slugs are bigger than the cabbages! What do you do all day under that tree?” Explained Rainyday, “I think there for a yam.”