Fresh blow the winds of winter.
Geary:
"What I need are some hot words. Hmmm. I wonder what that last sentence
means."
Well, according to Chomsky, "Hmmm" is not a sentence: 'The cat is on the
mat is'.
As for
i. What I need are some hot words.
it seems to be figurative. If you have the word 'MOTHER' made of bronze and
then heat it, then
ii. 'Mother' is a hot word.
But that would be A LITERAL use.
But cfr.
iii. "Cool" ain't no longer cool.
Geary:
"Try to live a day without language. The silent kind, too -- no talking
to yourself."
Shakespeare made fun of Chaucer for that. For Chaucer has the Wyff of Bath
'thinking to her selfe'. Shakespare thought that while you can _talk_ to
yourself, as Geary has it, the idea that the Wyff of Bath can "thinke to her
selfe" is otiose. "Whoelse is she going to think to?"
Cheers,
Speranza
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