The Eggs & Ham Experience - KSK and LSJ
There are a number of things that constitute Sungkyu’s human life. He does them because not doing them would attract attention and he’s smart enough to know that attracting attention is potentially a bad thing.
On three afternoons a week, he reports to the Philosophy building at the local college and proceeds to talk nonsense for an hour or so. He likes Philosophy because a key component of the discipline is talking nonsense. He’s very good at this and the students who aren’t all that much younger than himself or at least the age he appears to be think he’s funny as fuck. That’s pretty okay with him too.
Currently, he is inviting the lecture room to discuss the lessons to be learned from the book, Green Eggs and Ham.
“Point one,” he says, holding up his pointer and thumping the board where a slide of the first picture of the said Green Eggs and Ham is displayed. “Why is Sam so hung up on Green Eggs and/or Ham? Is this a metaphor for something? Is the Green Earth symbolized by the eggs? If so, what about the Ham? Think about it. Who in their right mind would eat Green Ham? Theoretically speaking, Green Ham would be far past its expiration date. It would be, in fact, spoiled Ham.”
Sungkyu smiles at the gathered Philosophy students. “Just what is Sam trying to pull here? And what about those eggs. I’ve heard of special hundred year old eggs being eaten at certain times and those would be pretty Green I imagine, but I can’t say I’d want them.”
He turns back to the board and clicks a button to advance the next slide. “Point two, how does the location from which we eat the meal or the companions with whom we eat it make it more edible? Is a box a safer place in case those eggs explode? What are your thoughts?”
