[lit-ideas] Re: Schadenfreude
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:06:38 EST
In a message dated 2/24/2009 7:35:21 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Some of my posts have been ignored, ... Mike Geary is back. It's like you
and he never went away.
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"Mike Geary is back, but then he never really went away, did he".
Is that falsifiable?
cfr. the very similar:
"When we say that one is as wise as a wisp,
does that imply the wisp is wise?"
1655 H. MORE Second Lash 218
I'm presently studying Gricean implicature.
>Thank you, Andreas. By being too busy to unsubscribe me from the list
(even
>though I sent in 3 requests), you saved me from having to pull an "Andy
[Amago] " on
>the list. The truth is, I'm not about to sacrifice membership on this list
>for very long, not just to support a friend and/or a moral principle. On
>the other hand, I couldn't let my friend [go] down (nor morality), so I'd
[would] have to
>sign back on under a pseudonym, and not just a pseudonym but a
>pseudo-personality with a pseudo-writing style, etc. I'd have to imagine
>myself as someone else, I'd have to become someone else on this list. What
>then if I find that's who I really am? -- what if I find I'm really a
>Republican? Or a chess lover?
or a Brie cheese-loving Republican, worse.
>Or a woman in a man's body? Or a paedophile
>priest? The possibilities are endless (or [if not] nearly so).
Geary is right about 'nearly so'. How could he simulate a Japanese
monolingual virgin, for example?
>You've saved me from
>all that. I suggest you not unsubscribe Brian either, let him stew in the
>Lit-Id juices a bit longer. Might give him a liberal flavor. : )
Bryan who?
Cheers,
JL
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