[lit-ideas] Re: Not very neighbourly

  • From: "Eric Yost" <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:08:02 -0400

>"You like Chinese food" is like "You like French food." Some is
mediocre. Some is divine.

Agreed. 

The Fortune Cookie Form does not allow space for nuance. The
imperative-performative--some would say self-referential--fortune cookie
read, "You are reading a fortune cookie." It was wrong. I was only
imagining it.

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