[lit-ideas] Re: Grice: The Unwritten Doctrines
- From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 19:12:22 -0800
JL wrote
Anyway, I was thinking. S. R. Chapman who wrote this book on _Grice_
went to Bancroft (UC/Berkeley) and found some _tapes_ -- these were
recordings of Grice's talks.
She noticed that the audience _laughed_ a lot, Grice _coughed_ a bit,
and everybody seemed to be having a 'jolly good time'.
The last few times Grice was here he coughed A LOT. Deep, lung wringing
wheezes that left him bent down over the table in front of him, scalp to
audience. Like dead air time, his wheezes and the ensuing gasps for air,
as from an asthmatic or one with emphysema, seemed to last forever. His
audience of students and faculty sat in silent empathy until he
recovered. This happened two or three times per fifty-minute talk.
May he breathe easy.
Robert Paul
Reed College
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