[lit-ideas] Re: easy
- From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 10:13:00 -0500
PALMA:
an easy way to test whether one can identify mental states indipendnetly
from their linguistic expressions:
CONSIDER A CRUCIAL MARXIAN DICTUM;
"last night I shot an elephant in my pajamas. What he was doing in m y
pajamas is anybody's guees"
(wrongly) attributed to G. Marx
And then, of course, there's true Marxism: "Time flies like an arrow, fruit
flies like a banana." But the genius of Marx, I think, lies in his
comment after having taken the pulse of life: "Either this man is dead or my
watch has stopped." Who could not be a Marxist?
Mike Geary
Memphis
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