Crtd 12-04-05  Lastedit 15-10-27

Returning from Nairobi, this time I found only Mlawatu. No Nasty. After 4 days I firmly concluded to a rotting dead cat in the swamp. Snake bite of something. Even Mlawatu was affected.

...Nasty died of snake bite...in Ethica, Spinoza proved geometrically that imagination can lead to tristitia, defined as a diminishing of the perfection of mind and body...cats as well, it seems...look at Mlawatu...he never puts his paw over my arm like that...

...Remembering Nasty (snifff!)...Mlawatu still small...I remember no tristitia about that rat and I know why: it is proven in Spinoza Ethica Pars III PROPOSITIO XX: Qui id quod odio habet, destrui imaginatur, laetabitur.

Nasty ceased to exist. Spinoza Ethica Part II Proposition VIII and its Corollarium taught me this:

So, Nasty ceased to exist, hence the idea of Nasty also ceased to exist, except in so far her idea is involved in the attributes of the substance. Fuck the attributes of the substance, we miss her!

But on day 4, sitting and reading on the steering deck I heard some noise at the gang plank behind my chair and a grey white hairy object with four legs flew over my shoulder, landed with a bang on the deck, ran in the hold and disappeared unfindable in the forecastle. No doubt, you guess my thoughts: Nos de duratione rerum singularium quae extra nos sunt, nullam nisi admodum inadaequatam cognitionem habere possumus. (Spinoza: Pars II PROP. XXXI).

...Laetitia! Nasty back...

I had been the victim of inadequate ideas resulting from imagination. I failed to deduce Nasty's ongoing duration or continuing actual existence from the essence of things which involved her necessarily (contingency does not exist) having been locked up in one of the compound's buildings, fortunately with ample water and delicious vermin. She looked rather confused but healthy.

Conclusion

Do not think my ideas were false. O no they weren't! Sp. Eth. Pars IV Prop. I: Nihil quod idea falsa positivum habet, tollitur praesentia veri quatenus verum!