Have you ever noticed how many names of philosophers and theologians sound like someone choking or coughing?
- Kierkegaard (someone choking on a fish bone)
- Schleiermacher (someone coughing to clear their throat prior to speaking)
- Hegel (one of those deep, wheezing coughs you get with bronchitis)
- Kant (repeated, someone choking on crackers: “Kant… Kant… Kant!…”)
- Nietzsche (sounds like a baby choking on baby food; so does “Niebuhr”)
- Tillich (a sip of water going down the wrong way)
- Cox (kind of like a death rattle)
- Hartshorne (what the Robitussin people call “an unproductive cough”)
I could go on. But I will spare you.
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You left out Bultmann and Panenberg.
Comment from jfieldnerd – 6/8/05 12:11 PM
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And names of writers that sound like allergy symptoms:
McPhee (a wheezy sneeze)
Capote (one of those explosive sneezes, usually into a damp handkerchief,
followed by much nose wiping)
Nabokov (a simultaneous sneeze and cough combo)
Woolf (a deep spasmodic mournful bark of a sneeze)
Alcott (a quick dry sneeze, usually three in succession)
Thurber (your elderly uncle, blowing his nose)
Ah, there are so many more…
Comment from writewrite – 6/9/05 7:21 AM