[lit-ideas] Re: "Bless you": a performative?
- From: Scribe1865@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 00:00:39 EDT
In a message dated 8/5/2004 10:29:21 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx writes:
I suppose this added confusion relates to its 'performative' aspect. It is
as if saying "bless you" you are _performing_ the act of saying 'be joyful'.
_____
And sometimes, we have "performative" anxiety. -EY
'O look, look in the mirror,
O look in your distress:
Life remains a blessing
Although you cannot bless.
[from As I Walked Out One Evening -W.H. Auden]
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