[lit-ideas] Re: The Taste of Helen Keller
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 13:54:51 EDT
In a message dated 7/8/2009 12:42:00 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
karltrogge@xxxxxxxx writes:
>> HK was not blinded and deafened until the relatively late age of
>> 19 months. (For the past few months I have
>> been watching and listening to a neighbour's child developing her
>> language skills - she just turned 2 a week ago.)
Well, you'll grant that for a serious student of Gricean conversation your
"p & q"
invited all sorts of queer implicatures. Which I have now cancelled seeing
that you are basically a nice person.
I first thought that you were suggesting that
Helen Keller had been _blinded_ and _deafened_ intentionally.
Surely it was an accident?
Also minimising that while Helen Keller was deaf and blind (at a 'relative
late(r) age' as you put it -- implicating something that I now cancel: that
people _have_ to be deafened or blinded at _some_ age -- early or late)
she surely was still very much heard in the neighbourhood -- and seen.
(cf. "Children should be seen, not heard").
That nanny they had, the Kellers, was pure gold, as Grice would say.
Cheers,
J. L. Speranza
out
in the Swimming-Pool Library
cheers.
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