‘What is it like to be a bat? ’
Sprigge asked the question first;
then Thomas Nagel took it up
with philosophic thirst;

What is it like to be a bat?
Who knows? Bats aren't so chatty…
but if you asked a bat, I guess
he’d say, ‘Well.. kinda batty..’

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(Written to mark the impending publication of the great man's essays, 'Secular Philosophy and the Religious Temperament')

Michael Shepherd

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