Marxian monostich

Another philosopher  recently posed the question, “What is it Like to be a Thermostat?”

-- David Lodge, Thinks… (2001), p. 97

Thermostat, dissing the mere Thermometer:

“The question is not simply to measure the temperature; the point is to change it.”

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/theses/

On the Nature of Being: a Slacker Meditation

“Cogito, ergo sum,” quoth Descartes.  Only that’s … so much effort…

Can I just am without thinking?  The verb to am -- I am you am he am she am …

-- David Lodge, Thinks… (2001), p. 4

The novelist’s here wrestling  with the innards of language, recalls the essay of Woody Allen, who, finding “I love you” too hackneyed, said to his paramour:  “I… loave you… I lerve you …”