[lit-ideas] Re: The bullshit stamp
- From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 16:19:15 -0700
David Ritchie wrote:
I thought, "How extraordinary." And then, "At least I hope they're
extraordinary."
Norman Malcolm once wrote in the margin of one of my papers, 'Meaning
what, precisely?' I did not see this as a suggestion that I refine or
sharpen the meaning of the underlined passage. I saw it (rightly, I
think) as implying that there was no way it could be given any meaning
at all. Not even a rough one.
And then there's the time I had a long conversation with the late David
Sachs, in a College Town hangout, in which I used the word
'por-tent-yoo-us' a number of times without his either pronouncing
portentous correctly (a gentle chide) or correcting me outright. This
struck me afterwards as the equivalent of hazing.
Robert Paul
The Mutton Institute
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