[lit-ideas] Re: Sensitive Poet
- From: Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 12:32:19 +0000 (GMT)
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From: David Ritchie <profdritchie@xxxxxxxxx>
>I hope you haven't seen Eddie Izzard on the subject of the flood. For then
>you may have a treat in store:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3REuen54jA>
Far be it from me to have nothing better to do [when I should be addressing
Kaufmann's paper and a hundred other things, some not even Popper-related], but
isn't the implicature here that you hope the person addressed has not
previously had the treat of watching the clip - and isn't wishing that someone
has not had the treat of something both meanspirited and luciferian? Of course
you can worm your way out like a Professor can do, by claiming what you meant
was some peculiar use of language, whereby you do not really hope they haven't
had the treat [despite saying so] but rather wish to emphasise that, if they
haven't, they may be glad to know they have one in store. But, frankly sir, no
one's fooled. Not for a nano.
D
Agressive poet
Ldn
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