S-P-I-N-O-Z-A

W. likes to test me on Spinoza: What is a mode? What's a substance? What's an attribute? I tell him the Ethics is too hard. Get the Routledge Guidebook to Spinoza's Ethics, W. tells me. But that'll be too hard for you, won't it? Get the Idiot's Guide to Spinoza, then. But that'll be too hard too. Start with these words on a piece of paper: S-P-I-N-O-Z-A. Ponder that in your stupidity.