Kant’s Coffee Drowning Joke

>Emmanuel Kant: Drank a "lot" of coffee. When he didn't have a cup for a while he became distraught and would cry "I am drowning!" This was the sign for his servants to bring him a new cup of coffee molto pronto. When he saw it arriving he would cry "Land! My dear friends, I see land!!!"

A caricature of Emmanuel Kant sits at a table surrounded by empty coffee cups, dramatically crying when his coffee runs out. His servants bring another cup, prompting him to shout "Land!" as if he were a stranded sailor spotting shore. The joke absurdly combines Kant’s famous philosophical identity with exaggerated coffee dependence and nautical melodrama.

• @antichirst / 14709 2023-11-19