[lit-ideas] Re: John McCreery, "Gags (The Expurgated Edition)"
- From: "Julie Krueger" <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:17:02 -0500
I like it too -- oh, that I were a university prof of phil & lit.
Julie Krueger
On 10/30/07, Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx <Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> McCreery:
>
> >I enjoy Speranza's posts the way I enjoy a strong blue cheese.
> >One or two bites a day is delightful [...] But
> >too much and a gag reflex sets in [in my mouth].
>
> *Call me masochist, but I like that -- McCreery's gag reflex, that is. I
> like reflexes in general, they are so _unintentional_. This second quote
> from the OED below indicates that gags can be intentional ('an unsuccessful
> effort to vomit'). The first quote on gagging at transubstantiation is _not_
> meant for Geary, since he swallows it.*
>
> *Cheers,*
>
> J. L. Speranza
> Professor of Literature and Philosophy, etc.
> University of Buenos Aires
>
> ps. I read in Andras Ramos's description of the list that it
> is meant for "university professors of literature and philosophy" to
> "discuss the impact of technology". I like that.
> **
> *Quote 1*
> **
> *1707 HICKERINGILL * *Priest-cr.* II. v. 49,
> I do not, in the least, wonder, that he (that swallows Transubstantiation)
> should Gagg at believing, that [etc.].
> **
> *Quote 2*
> **
> *1825* *FORBY **Voc. E. Anglia*, *Gag*, to nauseate; to reject with
> loathing, as if the throat were closed against the admission of what is
> offered; to make an unsuccessful effort to vomit.
>
>
>
>
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