So if it isn't black and white, I guess we can just bin the good vs. evil
rhetoric and move on, can't we?
On 12 Mar 2004 21:36:26 PST, "Robert Paul"
<Robert.Paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> Yeah, that's what I do. Blame it on black and white. Like chess, man.
> Black and
> white white and black. White. Black. Monotonous. How about green moves
> first for
> a change? Or Day-Glo orange? Or spots vs. stripes? Bobby Fischer only
> dreamed in
> color when he'd been taking Hadacol for several weeks. The rest of the
> time he
> dreamed in monochrome, like in Proust's Night Out. You've seen it?
> Two-and-a-half stars would be generous. Still, Holly Hunter is a
> babe--What--?
> White, I guess. If you ignore color you can pay better attention to the
> shapes
> of things but with color you get more realistic skin tones, those
> post-Matisse
> blues and violets that Warhol just completely ignores, but only
> seemingly!--as
> if they were Hume's missing shades of blue. There's just _one_ missing
> shaded of
> blue? How is _that_ known?
>
> If a bomb goes off in an empty train does it fluster anybody on Lit-Ideas
> enough
> to want to be a talking head on CNN? I think Chilson is tracking
> something:
> we're incapable of letting events lie uncategorized for even a single
> second. Or
> a single sentence. Frege said that concepts with vague boundaries were
> unusable;
> either that or they're not real concepts. (Grundgesetze der Arithmetik).
> I mean,
> he said one or the other, I forget exactly which. Wittgenstein says,
> 'Stand
> roughly here.' (Investigations $A488)
>
> Robert Paul
> Reed College
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