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{{a|myth|}}[[Discourse on Intercourse]] is a well-intended though basically wrong-headed philosophical tract formulated by delusional Austrian librettist [[Otto Büchstein]] in the depths of dengue fever delirium in 1769. It immediately preceded his last, great unfinished play {{dsh}}.
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}}[[Discourse on Intercourse]] is a well-intended though basically wrong-headed philosophical tract formulated by delusional Austrian librettist [[Otto Büchstein]] in the depths of dengue fever delirium in 1769. It immediately preceded his last, great unfinished play {{dsh}}.


Outraged by [[René Descartes]] [[Discourse on the Method|suggestion in 1637]] that the only indubitable thing in the universe was one’s own existence as a [[res cogitans|thinking thing]], [[Büchstein]] attempted to deduce an entire multi-personal [[epistemology]] from the commercial inevitability of [[conference call]]s.  
Outraged by [[René Descartes]] [[Discourse on the Method|suggestion in 1637]] that the only indubitable thing in the universe was one’s own existence as a [[res cogitans|thinking thing]], [[Büchstein]] attempted to deduce an entire multi-personal [[epistemology]] from the commercial inevitability of [[conference call]]s.