[lit-ideas] Re: Grammar question
- From: Andy <mimi.erva@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 04:18:19 -0700 (PDT)
Actually, not so hard. I replaced models of reality with models as reality,
confused art with advertising, only to become as if. Then, I figured it out.
Sometime (one word singular) is indefinite. "I have an appointment
sometime next year." Some time (two words singular) is definite. "Last year I
had an appointment and spent some time learning to play a financial
instrument." I feel like the character in that short story I had read years
ago (can't remember name, author or plot line) who has quite the emotional
experience while a storm rages outside. The next morning he goes out
and fights a duel. My paper (paperette really) was premised on the climax of
the story being the emotional experience and not the duel. The duel was
actually somewhat farcical. I was so blown away at my discovery. Anyway, here
I am, the morning after a long emotional night (minus the storm) of some time
not thinking about the sometime of not
thinking, ready to, if not duel, then reinscribe what I can't surpass, and
mostly to simply complicate the self-evident ...
Andy
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From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 3:05 AM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Grammar question
On 9/29/2011 7:31 PM, Mike Geary wrote:
> "Hard to say," I say.
Yes it is. Explanations are problematic. Even the bridging stipulations between
explanatory statements are dripping with metaphysics, let alone the auxiliary
assumptions that tangle us in Quine's Web of Belief, which since his death, has
moved to a small village in Hrvatska and doesn't return calls.
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