[lit-ideas] Re: Fiat lux
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 08:58:12 -0700
On Apr 25, 2011, at 8:21 AM, Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
>
> The phrase that God is supposed to have uttered is:
>
> intended to mean---
>
> i. there was no light before.
> by the "performative" act ("Let there be light") He was _allowing_ light
> to be. English complicates things with the 'let' -- whose subject is "You".
> But surely God is not referring to some impersonal "you" letting there be
> light. "Fiat lux" makes more sense. In Hebrew it makes even better sense,
> for those, of course, who speak it (or hear it)
>
And in 1899 Giovanni Agnelli said, "Let there be automobiles in Turin," and lo,
by performative act with spanners and the like, the 3 1/2 CV was born. Eleven
years later, they were making them in Poughkeepsie. The New York factory is
now part of a college campus. I went to school with an Agnelli. She called me
"Riccolo." In 1976 the Libyan government bought nearly ten percent of FIAT, a
stake that rose to fifteen percent in 1986. It's now about two percent
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/21/libya-oil-money-major-world-shareholder
Carry on.
David Ritchie,
once a proud owner
Portland, Oregon
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