It doesn’t even tell us what sort of bean we’re looking at. Java or Cocoa? Perhaps if it is a mescal bean it really would allow us to see (or at least hallucinate) the whole landscape.
If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next generation of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words? I believe it is the atomic hypothesis that
All things are made ofatoms—little particles that that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling upon being squeezed into one another.
Given the opportunity to throw out all the baggage why oh why would you keep a name that means ‘uncuttable’? Find a greek word that means ‘hard to cut but boy if you do cut it you open up a huge can of worms’.
It doesn’t even tell us what sort of bean we’re looking at. Java or Cocoa? Perhaps if it is a mescal bean it really would allow us to see (or at least hallucinate) the whole landscape.
Maybe it’s just that those monks didn’t have much wine on hand.
From the top of the page you link to:
Given the opportunity to throw out all the baggage why oh why would you keep a name that means ‘uncuttable’? Find a greek word that means ‘hard to cut but boy if you do cut it you open up a huge can of worms’.