The LRB is distributing a daily serving of "greatest hits" from their back issues, articles that made a big impression on readers and/or the editors. Yesterday's article was part 1 of Derek Parfit's piece
"on the universe" which struck me as steaming pile of metaphysical nonsense. It prompted the
following questions, with apologies to Gertrude Stein:
Why is there no there there?
Why is there there there?
