[lit-ideas] Over-Implicature
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 15:31:34 EST
In a message dated 1/1/2010 1:14:14 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Lawrence:
>The Oversoul isn't God....
Emerson (who coined the word Oversoul) wrote: "That Unity, that OVER-SOUL,
within every man's particular being is contained and made with all other;
----
I haven't been following this thread too closely. But hey, this is a good
polemic.
When my mother opens her mouth and says words like "very" or, never mind,
"too", I KNOW she is in one of her negative moods.
I have very SELDOM heard someone used "too" positively:
"You're too f-cking nice", perhaps
or
"Too true".
"Very", to me, is equally 'negative': "Her dress was _very_nice".
Now, 'over' possibly has 'negative' connotations too.
She overindulged him
He overestimated her.
He's an overman (Nietzsche)
Emerson: "That Unity, that OVER-SOUL,
within every man's particular being is contained and made with all
other."
Philosophers have forever tried to annhiliate the pre-Platonic myth that
the soul is immortal. "Immoral, maybe -- writes Aristotle -- but immortal?
Bullshit!"
In Aspects of Reason Grice admits that the soul _is_ possibly immortal:
"Hey, you cut the head of a chicken, and she keeps on running for a while: if
that's not a proof that the soul is immortal, I don't know what is" --
googlebooks.
But the _over-soul_, sic hyphenated too? Give me a break!
Cheers,
J. L. Speranza
The Swimming-Pool Library
The Villa Speranza
Bordighera
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