Methinks the lady doth protest too much. The one in Seattle that is! The thing is Emily, I replied to emptybill as I was moved to reply and in a way that made sense to me. One has to start there I think and see what happens next.
On Sunday, March 9, 2014 12:12 PM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: Well, it is amusing to watch Share's mind...I wonder if she was following mine. The word "methinks" is one used by Shakespeare. Shakespeare wrote of paradox and, if you will, "wondrous paradox." And on this topic of paradox, from the book "Shakespeare and the Paradox" we find the following: "Whatever else it is designed to do to incite its audience's wonder, the paradox dazzles by its mental gymnastics, by its manipulation even prestidigitation, of ideas, true or false. The rhetorical paradox is, further, paradoxical in its double aim of dazzling - that is, of arresting thought altogether in the possessive experience of wonder - and of stimulating further questions, speculation, qualification, even contradiction on the part of that wondering audience." Of course, she did not answer my first question, which was "how did her comment relate to Emptybill's post?" This was the most important question for her, of course, and she dismissed it, but...she is where she is.
