[MD] The Word is Not the Thing

[X Acto]

Arlo,
that trek episode was "I,Mudd" a planet of androids
that held Mudd captive...
an excellent episode..

I love you,

but I hate you..
(spock to identical twins)


 


----- Original Message ----
From: Arlo Bensinger <ajb102 at psu.edu>
To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 1:31:02 PM
Subject: Re: [MD] The Word is Not the Thing

[Andre]
Well Arlo...as Phaedrus told De Weese (about the lightbulb) : you have to have some familiarity!

[Arlo]
I suppose. As I said, finding linguistic contradiction in language is a kid's game. And when wielded well, a Koan. Everyone is familiar with the former, many the latter. I remember the day my daughter "discovered" the sentence "this statement is false", I could see the smoke coming from her ears (a la Mudd's Women). Zeno's paradoxes are still fun tavern topics. And if "all this is just an analogy" means that for some Pirsig is "profoundly incoherent" for setting himself up for a recursive linguistic contradiction, then so be it...

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