The third baseman has a lung wart, it warbles when he hunts
Turkey tits.
America was then the best-plumbed nation in the world, the
bathrooms, artistic and beautiful, novel and complete, are a
revelation. Rudy (not his real name) knows of the difficulties
that indisciminate toilet-seat use can cause. tall and flabby,
he rarely parts his hair. some days, he feels like a wet Texas
sweet onion.
why, your own daughter was seven months pregnant before
you even noticed, and then you -- you thought she was
overweight! the kids were right.
"nous gagnons."
"Jesus ...," she mumbled. "... look at all them coloreds
... you all right in here? then she remembered how Sally had
mysteriously disappeared and Janet's cynical explanation. therein
lay a problem. all toilet bowls were round, and centrifugal
force could thus force the entering water to flow upward, so
that a drip tray -- ominously called the "save-all tray" --
was standard equipment.
having conjoined (A + B), we might derive (B + A). they
are objects, foci upon which my attention is fixed -- not signs,
vehicles by which my attention is conveyed. and there is the
advertising.
a red octagon with white borders and letters appearing
at the end of an exit off the highway announces the necessity
to stop. the so-called correspondence theory of truth has been
rejected by some highly influential contemporary thinkers.
A. Intentional Food Additives:
1. Nutritive
2. Freshness maintenance
3. Sensory
4. Processing aids
his closest friend is Harry Elmo Radich, a Ringo-type
rummer and quiet beer drinker. a brown paper bag has been placed
on his head, then squashed. he toys with a golden paper clip
and complacently proffers the end of his tie.
Boone leans back and complacently sucks on a massive phallic
symbol disguised as a cigar. anti-semitism is trotted out
in new clothes. that element of the clause which is in first
position is known as the theme, and everything that follows
it is the rheme.
pink coatings are much in demand, and FD&C Red No. 3 (dye)
is fugitive to light while FD&C Red No. 2 produces unsatisfactory
shades. even toilet seats were available in colors (but rarely flavors).
"they already know," Mr. Blue said, why was it that crooks
and liars always used that phrase? here are a few remarks which
may help you in your evaluation and use of this text.
3.3 Categorical iconicity revisited
microorganisms contaminate our air, water and food in relatively
low numbers.
"look," he sighed. "can I help it if the girl got hot pants?"
"dont you say that about her!"
not many of my readers suspect that, in addition to my well-known knack of expressing petty irritation in terms of
high-sounding, moralistic scorn, I also possess an ability to create poetry of great confusion and charm. threats by the much disliked Carruthers Brothers and the imminent danger they pose are unable to dissuade the bedraggled varmint from telling everything to anyone who happens along. wood? tile? linoleum? if our experiences are in any sense typical, we are certain the mere mention of the word "grammar" will produce in you an immediate feeling of severe nausea, and we begin this book with that certainty firmly in mind.
private homeowners, of course, are not subjected to the
rigorous authenticity required of museums. quickly (if not
immediately), however, such a "zero degree" or "absence" of
style is seen for what it is -- a distinctive or unique style.
if this means what I think it means, I hope I misunderstand
it. a president appearing on television with a minister at his
side may intend to signify the righteousness of the cause to
which he is calling the nation. the mountains, lately, have
been visible in her dreams.
black marks parade in disciplined fashion across numbered
pages. in one case, these marks report what had just happened
elsewhere; in another, they chronicle what occurred long ago;
in a third, they create a world that has never existed nor even
could. bees crawl on the quartered slices in the pan. the
photographers will be down there.
1922 Guinea Green
1927 Fast Green
1929 Ponceau SX
the utility, the convenience, the sanitary and economic
advantages of a well-planned, well-equipped bathroom are now
almost universally acknowledged. "and yet," Tabitha replies,
"recent studies suggest, and so forth, et cetera."
"on fait bien le guerre, non?" a man stood just inside
with a shotgun guarding what looked like a scene from an
operating room. that remark is to be contrasted with the
utterance: "That is a _____," where the blank may be filled
in with any well-formed description in English.
this suggests a class of possible alternative analyses
of the switch-reference relation, which preserve the defintion
of the relation as indicating co- or disjoint reference, at
the expense of redefining the switch-reference pivot. this last
example, from Hsilgne, or English, illustrates one of the initial
difficulties often encountered by people when they are first
exposed to linguistics: namely, the question of what the content
of linguistics could be. Mr. Blue smiled.
"shall I turn the sound up or down?"
(i ) verbs with dummy subjects
ascorbic acid is often a desired ingredient in beverages, either
for its vitamin activity or as a flavor protector, in which case
it protects by scavenging the oxygen in the headspace air.
materials from nature which fall into the category of
unintentional food additives include radionuclides,. a variety
of material in the water used for preparing foods and the dirty
residues, such as insect parts and excreta (which typified food
of the "good old days" more than it does today).
that night they took him out of his cell, led him trembling
into the interrogation room, and they waited patiently as the
sickness came over him more strongly -- the chills, leg cramps,
violent nausea and explosive diarrhea.
FD&C Red No. 3 Lake produces attractive coatings with
increased light stability over the dye.
BUBBLE CHAMBER ELECTRON SET MEMBERSHIP JUDGMENT
DETECTION
Sensing device: ionization traces in Sensing device: the head
the chamber of the linguist. that
is, intuition
2. LANGUAGE GAMES
Dr. Johnson "refuted" Berkeley by kicking a stone. the
Mississippi River was six blocks away.
red spots appearing one morning all over a child's body
signify to all intelligent persons that something?s wrong and
to the trained observer that it's a case of chicken pox. this
happily apocryphal story is however an excellent parable for
philosophy as conceived by the post-Wittgensteinians. as if
it mattered.
the converse is true if we wish to describe the same object
as it lies on the ground.
"foreign body reaction!" he groaned. or endlessly protracted
prophylaxis. moving closer he sniffs the car's exhaust and
realizes that the motor is still running. the man adjusts his
mask and Hardy sees that his face is without any expression
at all, and that seems to him a merciless form of gloating.
"you keep saying 'we'," Hardy says. "is there someone in
that suit with you? my wife needs a vacation."
"go away!" Bunny screams. "I'm not Bunny Lewis! I'm not!
I never went to the art students' league keggers or their beach party
and I dont know any of their parents!"
**we in the Order believe in Santa Claus,** Sister San Antonio
beams, her mouth filled with raw vegetables and nutritious things
made of dried beans and redwood shingles.
6. THE RELUCTANT CENTIPEDE
Bunny falls over the stool. "Obsequious," says the little girl.
"WHAT!" thunders her skerry stepmother.
there is a problem here however: how could one distinguish
the boredom of attrition from the boredom of illumination? if
you are comic-fat, you dont hop up on the load of trunks and
show the cameras a lot of leg-meat. continuous hard candy
operations utilize concentrated aqueous color solutions.
?she?d just washed her hair. half her clothes were off.
and you know how to evaporate.? he turned to Mr. Blue, who had
not spoken for hours ... and his last words hadnt been of much use.
silence always seemed to make him skinnier and more intense.
it is, at the same time, a kind of vindication of the extrovert
against the introvert.
?meat butler.?
?crab strings.?
as if it mattered.
3.3 Discontinuity
the scrap of pride left Fisher then, and his terror returned.
Fisher grunted ?Yum,? and Gumbie turned his back on him.
Wittgenstein now interpreted veil-penetrating visions of the
world as conceptual worries or cramps, and predicted, wrongly,
that they would be cured by his method. to show that this is
true, consider the following examples:
E13. (a) Never tell a lie.
(b) Lie in my bed ---
(*c) Never tell a lie in my bed.
no fundamental logical skeleton underlies the manifold doings
of concrete speakers. her mother worked in a cookie factory.
a bulldozer cant take kidding, however. such being so, it is
not only fair to bait reds but dishonest to treat them with
special restraint. Siwash wants to win sometimes, if only to make the losing more bitter.
more intense in the blood.
it is sometimes supposed that Linguistic Philosophy corrupts
the young. this belief probably arises from the confusion of
the movement with Logical Positivism proper.
he is late and she's alone. the sole purpose of this chapter is to get you
interested in the rest of the book.
E9. (a) That is a tall flagpole.
(b) That is a long flagpole.
we will not attempt to settle this question here.
WEEK 9 The First Complete Model -- Chomsky's Aspects of the
Theory of Syntax (Chapter 8)
Nonlexical ambiguities:
(d) Mary?s murder amazed us.
(e) I was hit by the girl with a brick.
language is a natural thing, an activity undertaken by concrete
men in concrete contexts. (it is admitted that some past
philosophers did good work without understanding what they were
doing.) Charlotte is often embarrassed, but she remains non-
fixed. it leads her to wonder aloud if they might be lost. one
out of three times, roughly, they are.
why not bait reds? glycerine is used as a humectant in
marshmallows to retain the soft fluffy texture. Fisher was
hanging upside-down, his legs crooked over a chair back, his
head in a helmet.
B. Incidental food additives
why didnt Mr. Blue intervene? ?except for her and the egg.?
?must be fingerprints all over her ass.? with her
nearsighted eyes she is not infrequently mistaken.
?spaceman,? says Avery. the caveman, too, might have been
a hasty lover, with a dirt-smeared face. reading involves
something analogous to seduction, foreplay, and even orgasm;
jouissance is the term he uses because (among other things)
it signifies the bliss one experiences during orgasm. sounds
like Marcus Welby giving assurances to a TB patient, doesnt
it?
under Spanish colonial rule the African inhabitants of
Fernando Poo (mostly Bubis) and those of Rio Muni (mostly Fang)
lingered in misery as underprivileged semi-slaves and plantation
workers or destitute peasants oppressed by the privileged Spanish
settler landlords. if you have guests, the lack of sufficient
toilet rooms may be embarrassing. ?what are ?nylons?, friend??
Dick asked, his mouth quickly filling with shards from the many
splintered stalactities lying about. ?thinks she was humped
by a goddamn spaceman. how you like that?? in discovering
opiates, he found the love of his life at only seventeen.
the linguo-philosophic approach is absurd, for a variety
of reasons.
10. ORIGINALITY
21. A SENSE OF DECORUM
(5) you may disregard ordinary language at the end, but only if you have taken care to give meaning
to your neologisms. at the start, you must reflect on the actual use.
(6) some problems are by-products of linguistic confusions.
E13. (a) Never tell a lie.
(b) Lie in my bed
(*c) Never tell a lie in my bed.
in both cases there exists the possibility of human error.
?aliens, blacks, prostitutes, polygamists, professional beggars,
stowaways, lepers, and psychopaths.? the Argument from
Smiling Bridegrooms solves it all.*
?I asked her why we had to remember them when we could
write them down in a notebook and look them up when we needed
them. she asked if I wanted to carry a notebook around the rest
of my life, and I said I wouldnt mind. I really wouldnt. but she
would not allow me to do it my way.?
?camera?? he said. fanaticism begins with our falling in
love, so to speak, with certain sentences. the event took place
in the presence of HAILE SELASSIE of Ethiopia, who had stopped
at Madrid on his way home from the funeral of President KENNEDY
of the United States. feeling ran high.
Frank fell to the bottom of the group. he rarely used the
small toilet because there was a rumor that if you sat down
the sewer rats would pop up inside and bite your testicles.
for example, he would not be surprised to find them operating
in the novels of James Joyce or Gertrude Stein. the founder
of the movement was obsessed with the inevitability of being
misunderstood. she is on the landing just outside the emergency-
exit door of the small company for which she works as a clerk-
typist, engaged in certain sexual activities with a tall,
mustachioed UPS driver who has had his license revoked
since September.
in June 1966 a UN Special Committee again discussed the
question of Rio Muni and Fernando Poo. is the mind a dark cavern
which is illuminated by ideas? is it a vessel, which is filled
by ideas?
or is it a muscle which may be strengthened?
or a garden to be cultivated?
the implications for american society as a whole are clear.
the Nortons shouted at the club bowlers and made all sorts
of noises to upset their concentration. using words
and gestures (that is, linguistic and other signs), I
tell you about a storm that occurred while you were away.
I was in the presence of the storm, while you were not.
(italicized:) Toilet types developed in the last quarter
of the 19th century: the washout, the washdown
and the siphonic jet.
8.3 Cohesion
Wittgenstein was, throughout his life, one of the sages of
Lagado.
?Mrs. Selby said they only seem to meet and if you walk
up to the where you saw them meet, you?d see they didnt.
?well, after a while, what with the dead grasshoppers in
the freezer and her denims that wouldnt fade and the way the
snow would sort of drift over the pile of empty beer cans in
the empty barbecue pit, and the damn fool baker and his stories,
she just took off one night while I was lubeing Jack?s pickup
for the bear hunt down to the town dump.? (indicates the color-
coordinated file cabinets.)
the phrase median divider is a good example of stupid talk,
since it has the potential to confuse at least some drivers
(maybe even readers of Henry James) and therefore defeats the
basic purpose of a sign. this is, in fact, one of the worst
books ever written.
9. THE PROSELYTIZING SOLIPSIST
"some of his poems happen to be very good," said Paula, a fat
girl of about twenty with bad skin and wearing a loose, ruffled
blouse embroidered with flowers. in the past few years there
has been such an upsurge of interest in the field of generative
transformational grammar that every few months has seen the
publication of a new introductory text. school 9 is by far the
most upper-middle-class one and by far the most activ-
ities-oriented. I mean, like fried eggs and things! there is
no justice. just then, the phone rings. in Brooklyn?
E1. (a) Max lost his pants.
(b) Martha held her breath until the gas dissipated.
(c) Margaret winked her left eye at Harry.
the much-admired Buckminster Fuller suffers from systemaphilia.
so did Karl Marx, John Dewey, Rousseau, and Joseph Stalin. there
are many mental hazards connected with bowling.
11. THE CORRUPTION OF YOUTH
we had intended to call this book The Demystification of
Transformational Grammar.
Gumbie whispered, "get me out of here." in other words,
deduction proves that something must be the case; induction
shows that something actually is the case; and abduction suggests
that something might be the case (CP 5.171). the trend toward
the ideal of the athletic star on the part of the leading crowds
is due in part to the fact that the leading crowds include a
great number of athletes. you can tell them by their subdued
ties, tiny penises, and bony wives.
E14. (a) Henry is eager to please.
(b) Henry is easy to please.
so long, Sister. a sentence is an example of a syntagym.
1 the use of the symbol * by linguists
is subject to rather wild variations.
2 clearly, then the object referred to as
the real world out there is, in fact,
insideour heads.
3 these facts were first described by
C.Lakoff (1970a).
