[lit-ideas] Stuff and Sense
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:16:51 EST
In a message dated 11/12/2009 1:14:29 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
When she said, "You'll miss me when I'm gone," he responded, "No I won't."
"Why?"
"Well mother, it's because I'm going to have you stuffed.
---- referential analysis
with the proviso, Adriano (all rhythm, no soul) Palma.
you'll miss ME (Mrs Cheese) when I (Mrs. Cheese )
am gone (from the land of the living).
No. I'll have you (Mrs Cheese) Stufffed.
rewrite: I'll have your BODY stuffed.
Palma would say, Q. E. D.
But a Gricean would object,
"Mrs. Cheese" refers to a psychosomatic unity that _says_ things.
A stuffed Mrs Cheese does NOT say things (Cheese would have to imagine
her saying things, to which he'd reply).
---
etc.
JLS
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