The other day I caught the spine of one of Tage’s books out of the corner of my eye, and the title took me by surprise. It took me a second or two to process it, but then it struck me as outrageously funny and I couldn’t stop laughing for minutes, at least.
Olof, of course, asked what I was laughing at, so I picked up the book and showed him. He didn’t get it. I ran through a quick history of Thomas Aquinas and his proofs of the existence of God (in particular, the first proof), but he remained stone-faced. I expounded further on the many reasons that us having a children’s book entitled “First Movers” would be uproariously funny, but he was altogether unconvinced. Guess my past as a history/religion major is showing. I could have killed with this story in college.
I’m a bit lost…
Your children are bi-lingual I assume?
I think there aren’t very many people besides me who would think it’s funny. 🙂
It’s just that the phrase “first mover” always makes me think of Thomas Aquinas’s proof of the existence of God, that all things are moved by something else, but originally there had to be a first mover:
“Therefore it is necessary to go back to some first mover, which is itself moved by nothing—and this all men know as God.”
And, yep, the kids are bi-lingual, to varying degrees. 🙂