[lit-ideas] Re: Neo-Sophism and its Sources
- From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 07:57:36 -0500
> They note that, while Joseph uses the 'ye' form [plural second person,
> formal] in versicle 12 (and twice: "wouldst ye ...", "seek ye") he
abruptly
> turns to the 'thee' [singular second person, informal] form in the next
> ("laugheth thee"). The effect -- whether intentional or not, and, as J. A.
Williamson
> notes (_Notes and Queries_, vol 41, p. 87) turns 'the moral Joseph
purports
> to communicate illogical if not exhilarating -- and smelling of
apocryphity.'
Joseph from from the hood. He talked as best he could.
Mike Geary
Memphis
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