What a game. a sense of something being "very different" would cause one to have doubts about a fundamental premise or requirement the thing is presumed to match or employ.
Regarding the itch, my first reaction is a feeling of repulsion because I don't know you intimately enough to be your scratcher. If you were a pretty girl I might oblige. Otherwise I'd tell you to go find a doorway or a tree or get a tool of some sort if you need your itch scratched and don't tell me anymore about it, please. Also,I think the likening you describe is really a metaphor and not a simple analogy because you are comparing a physical state with a vague mental state, a transitive state at that. So, with respect to the metaphor I'd guess that you are suggesting that the author has an itch (vague feeling/idea) and tries varied words and phrases to hopefully hone in on the most satisfying relief that is the result of the feeling/idea being conveyed symbolically. An ambiguity or second level metaphorical interpretation would be that this process also mirrors a reader who, as an author surrogate, repeats the process of the author. That's a long way of saying your feeling/idea itches and scratch yourself with words until they seem to perfectly contain the now satisfied itch and presumably the reader repeats the process or tries to. Or not. wc ________________________________ From: Michael Brady <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, June 27, 2009 1:26:42 PM Subject: Re: marks On Jun 27, 2009, at 2:19 PM, [email protected] wrote: > I believe that any two given notions are ALWAYS different to some degree, and > often VERY different. I'm thinking of a notion. I'll give you a clue by sending these electronic shapes to your location. Here is my notion, in the form of two related questions: How do you calibrate "very," as in "very different"? How important or crucial to your assertion is the degree of "very"ness? I have another notion, and I'll send more clues: My second notion is in the form of an anecdote or example, which I associate in my mind analogically to this topic. My back itches, but I cannot reach it. I ask someone else to scratch it for me. "Not there, a little to the left." "Nope, too far. Back to the right, and down a bit." But as this happens, the itch seems to move to another position. "Can you scratch a little up and to the right?" Eventually, some of the itch is scratched and some of it just abates, and you decide you can live with the little bit that remains. My analogical association correlates the itch with my "meaning" of a word, and your attempts to scratch it with your attempt to recreate that "meaning" in your head. Did these electronic shapes convey anything to you? | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Michael Brady [email protected] http://considerthepreposition.blogspot.com/
