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The "Metaphysical Chat" has its origin in the late night discussions that took place among the varied crew of restless students avoiding sleep in the lounge of Campbell 5, at Rutgers College in New Brunswick, NJ. With college being that fun place of discovery, and sleep deprivation making for increasingly strange topics, there was no shortage of weird arguments for this author to join. These rhetorical exercises in late night sarcasm and nonsense did manage to yield several repeatable ideas. The Metaphysical Chat was a creative vehicle through which the best of the loopy theories were later removed from their semi-argumentative setting and then expounded upon with all due facetiousness.
The first three Chats were elements of a weekly series of diverse 3' x 5' posters that were put up on the Campbell 5 announcement boards during the 1989-90 academic year. Preliminary notes for a fourth Chat were made during that period, but it would not be written out for another year and a half. The fifth Chat was composed to fill the void created when the Humour/Satire editors of the Rutgers Review nixed publication of Chat #4 on the grounds that it was not funny. Whether or not the fourth Chat is good for giggles, it has not been included here.
J. Shuster was a Campbell 5 resident who came up with many of the underlying ideas threshed out by the Metaphysical Chats. He and I had great success in inventing and solving metaphyscial problems, but we were unsuccessful in getting the administration to physically remove our unintelligible music theory adjunct professor. M. Derfler and Klein were Campbell residents of a later era, who began to goof on Plato at the right time and at the lunch table of the right person.
(The fifth floor of the Campbell dormitory was home to the author for two increasingly bizarre years. More odd fruit of the Campbell 5 experience can be found in the Campbell 5th Floor Dictionary and Phrasebook.)
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