[lit-ideas] Re: "The Life and Death of Wittgenstein"
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 11:28:03 EDT
In a message dated 5/15/2009 10:52:05 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
"at [the v. point of] his death he cried out", and don't generally expect
to have to thank a TLP-injecting smartarse for objecting, "No, that would
have to been - by definition - a cry before [the v. point of] his death."
----
Yes, and he liked westerns too.
Incidentally, a typicaly way of killing a cowboy (or western (man)) I was
told, is _hang_ him. In a tree.
Now, the interesting thing is that if you go to those trees, they smell.
They smell of _ejaculate_.
The reason was that the rope, making contact with the testicles (of the man
hanging) provoked an _orgasm_ of sorts.
"Before he died, he ejaculated" makes sense.
The French, ever hyperbolic, think one can "petit-die" ("petty death" I
call it). It's the orgasm itself. Which is odd since they don't have the West
in France.
Good point that if you take Wittgenstein's 6. ... tautological it's _not_
illuminating. But note that we hardly use 'die' in the present indicative,
the signal of a 'fact' for Wittgenstein ('it rains'):
Try to google for 'he dies' or 'she dies' or 'they die' or even the
self-pragmatic contradiction, "I die" or the threat, 'you die' and the almost
impossible to verify 'we die'.
--- Oddly, P. Stone's anecdote reminded me of the book, "Geary's Son":
"A book where I'll record all utterances by my son."
"The other day I asked him, "Don't you have anything to say?"
"He said, 'anything'. I guess he is hiding something."
Cheers,
JLS
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