I don’t actually have direct sourcing on the Churchill quote. That is one of Cormac McCarthy’s favorite attributions, so I have heard it a few times over the years. I should find out in what context it was said.
E > On Oct 12, 2020, at 5:44 PM, uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ha! Yes, the question always boils down to whether or not one gives the > metaphor-maker the benefit of the doubt and assumes they don't foist > targetless metaphors upon us. The tragic mistake of a modernist is to think > other people are NOT zombies, absent of any content at all. "He can't > possibly be as empty-headed as he seems. So there must be some deep structure > we could tease out if we had the energy." > > I've never heard the Chruchill quote, where's it from? > > On 10/12/20 2:01 PM, David Eric Smith wrote: >> I think it is a grand metaphor, meant to bring in the whole of one of the >> briefest postal correspondences in the literature of science. >> >> Boltzmann to his publisher: ? >> Publisher back to Boltamann: ! >> >> What did Churchill say? The two things that modern man would worst miss >> were a classical education and the horse. > > -- > ↙↙↙ uǝlƃ > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe > https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http%3a%2f%2fredfish.com%2fmailman%2flistinfo%2ffriam_redfish.com&c=E,1,klaLOCyBcoKarALcb9OcKoPzXlc1NJHBQ9ryy7I7KtTewTfNhN_2kQgbWUgqjcWU3QVONaE2ENZ8ev5Sg0OALVH2dTDOBhFMcIF9xrxoxtTrtHB0d6w,&typo=1 > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC > https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http%3a%2f%2ffriam-comic.blogspot.com%2f&c=E,1,o8cbDt-vPu2Izsqvtysn1u_PDNQgq2uStTXN7BP45-z_1CpxSX-Ug71bwZmrL3Z4ZM3lwWgAScyBnQI5ripZVm9QheFe4ZqIcpJeIAddJMn64-jeeGDgLoys&typo=1 > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
