[lit-ideas] Re: Sophisticated Literalism
- From: David Ritchie <profdritchie@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 13:19:13 -0700
On Apr 14, 2013, at 12:51 PM, Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
> The epithet still survives.
>
> A graffito in West Belfast the day after her death played on Grice's idea
> of disimplicature. It read:
>
> “Iron Lady, Rust in Peace”
Having smugly congratulated myself for leaving England when she was elected, I
landed in an America in which some proportion of the voting population (I
forget the vote count) thought that a second-rate actor would make a good
president. Today there are people who adore both figures. Not me. But now
that she's dead, I'm not going to sing, "Ding Dong." I do, however, admire the
writer of this particular piece of graffito. Thank you for bringing it to our
attention.
David Ritchie,
wondering whether it's going to rain in
Portland, Oregon
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