# Claude 5: Write me a funny limerick about Heideggerian ontology that has the grandeur of epic poetry

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> Published: 2026-06-11 13:22:59+00:00

It’s been a while since I tried this with a new model. Claude Fable passed with flying colours 👌 I particularly appreciated the note at the end.

**The Daseiniad (Director’s Cut)**

Sing, Muse, of that Freiburg professor

Whose prose made each sentence a guessor!

“The Nothing, it noths!”

He declared to the moths

In his hut (no electric—much lesser).

Lo! Dasein woke up, mighty thrower,

Found out it was thrown—what a downer!

“I’m Being-toward-death?!

Who approved this?” Its breath

Grew ragged. It ordered a Stoner.*

The hammer broke! Heavens defend us!

Now present-at-hand—how tremendous!

For Being revealed

Is by toolbreak unsealed…

(Or just call a guy. They can mend us.)

O reader who’s made it this far,

Sein und Zeit sits unread on your bar!

Eight hundred-odd pages

Of “Being” in stages—

The unread book IS who you are.

*Beer. Authentic Black Forest beer.
