The whole idea of language on holiday is ridiculous. Witters did not know the first thing about holiday. Recall his background: aristocratic Jew (Israeli) from Vienna. Instead of going to Trieste and Capri, he enrolls for the engineering programme in, of all places, Manchester! Surely when he got appointed chair of Philo at Cambridge, he found that holiday-ish enough. O.T.O.H., where Geary goes for a holiday escapes me. Holy day is not a jolly day. The holy day is the mecca day. And it's the wrong people who travel. In the old days, the grand tourists toured to LEARN, not to show their nipples in St. Tropez -- and cellulitic limbs. Ah, philosophy.
J. L. Speranza The Swimming-Pool Library Bordighera -----Original Message----- From: Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sun, Aug 9, 2009 12:27 am Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Locating Friere's foot RP:
Wittgenstein wrote in the Investigations that '[p]hilosophical
problems
arise when language goes on holiday.'
Hmmm. I would have said: "Language happens when philosophy goes on holiday." But that's just me. Mike Geary Memphis ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html
