[lit-ideas] Re: Your Favorite Misnomer
- From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "LIT-IDEAS" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 22:44:22 -0500
> We used to have a bookcase in the front hall with a piece of red
> carpeting on the top -- a landing place for keys, glasses, mail and bits
> of this and that on its way from one place to another. At least fifteen
> years ago, the bookcase was replaced, moved down the hall and covered by
> a new carpet, not red at all. To this day we all still say, "I'll leave
> it on the red carpet for you." You just don't mess with things like
> that...
I like that. I like the notion that names can overtake their referent.
Someday I'll sit down and cogitate what that all means. How much of our
lives are spent reverencing names that have become thier own referent?
Mike Geary
Memphis
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