[lit-ideas] McEvoy's Findings
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:37:30 EDT
In a message dated 4/28/2010 4:45:20 P.M., mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx writes:
bribes, and sudden
encumbrances not included.)
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I propose he takes Ursula Stange with him.
He called Ursula, 'trite' and 'false'.
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Donal McEvoy proposes a 'reductio ad absurdum' of Ursula. Ursula was
commenting on a piece by Geary, "Grandkids".
How grand can a kid be?
---- Ursula had remarked:
"a kid is grand if you find HIM grand -- what you find is already there".
Donal McEvoy argued that was
FALSE: "I can find a key that it was not already there". He qualifies this
to read, "Because someone put it 'before I knew it'.
TRITE. Here Donal McEvoy speaks of 'vices' that people have. How can you
find that Jones, say, is an alcoholic, unless he is one? McEvoy notes: 'some
traits in people develop with time'. In such a case, the alcoholism in
Jones (provided it is a vice) is not found when he was not one (alcoholic).
But
Ursula knew that, and she knew we all knew that; hence what she said was
trite.
As Geary notes: Virgil possibly misled Dante onto something.
JL
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