Mm. Lots of metaphorical, associative, and inferential processes in
your propositions above. I won't go
into the problems with the binaries you mention:-)
Agreed. It's just a sketch anyway. Another useful function of metaphors is
to summarise very quickly a theme, topic or problematic
[mirror, mirror, on the wall, who's the biggest protection racket of them
all???]
[New York Times]
August 23, 2003
U.S. Wants Foreign Leaders' Laundered Assets
By ERIC LICHTBLAU
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 - Federal officials have developed a plan to seize
financial assets laundered into the
Yeah, I thoughtthis is graet. We put in in power, then
when they get caught, we take what they stole. Don't
the Nicaraguans deserve the proceeds of Aleman's
robberies? jks
--- Eubulides [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[mirror, mirror, on the wall, who's the biggest
protection racket of them
- Original Message -
From: andie nachgeborenen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2003 9:45 AM
Subject: Re: [PEN-L] frontiers of one-upmanship
Yeah, I thoughtthis is graet. We put in in power, then
when they get caught, we take what they stole. Don't
Jurriaan Bendien wrote:
I suppose the ultimate human goal is the realisation
of immortality, i.e. the extension of human life in perpetuity, which
assumes a love of human life, a love of being human in any possible way.
It may be the ultimate egotistic goal, but I don't know that I would call it
Dearest Joanna,
I honestly and firmly believe that what you say here is bunk. But I will do
you the honour of investigating it some more. After all, one could be wrong,
and language has its limitations, does it not ?
I am fully aware, that sublime contemplations of immortality seem rather
'Tourists' fail Beatles quiz
Six Brazilians have been turned away by immigration officials at Heathrow
Airport after failing a quiz about the Beatles.
The group said they were on their way to Liverpool's Mathew Street Festival
this weekend, which celebrates the lives of the Fab Four. Reports say
Jurriaan Bendien wrote:
Dearest Joanna,
I honestly and firmly believe that what you say here is bunk. But I will do
you the honour of investigating it some more. After all, one could be wrong,
and language has its limitations, does it not ?
I'm not sure what you are talking about -- and in
I'm not sure what you are talking about -- and in particular, the hotel
allegory is obscure.
Ever deconstructed the word obscure ?
But Homer would have agreed with Joanna. The lives of the gods
(immortals) are meaningless, because it is their mortality that gives
meaning to human lives. We
BBC News reports:
They actually made people sing Beatles songs.
That should be a scene from a Terry Gilliam movie... a creepy,
Brazil-style setting at an airport...
EXT. ESTABLISH SHOT Futuristic airport. Echoey footsteps can be heard
as jets take off and land.
INT. LONG WHITE-GLOWING HALL
Anyway, I what you say is corect, and Homer thinks that the lives of the
Gods are meaningless, then why does he keep on writing about them ? What
concept of signification does Homer have ?
If I was to go around Greece saying things like Homer thinks that the lives
of the Gods are meaningless the
Let me tell you bout a girl I know,
I met her walking down an uptown street !
She's so fine, I wish she was mine,
I shook up every time we meet...
Talkin bout you (nobody but you baby),
Nobody but you (yes you all the time),
I do mean you (yeah my baby),
Just trying to get a message to you !
Let
Socialist Party Member paid for tart action against Pim Fortuyn [?]
The Hague, Saturday - The affair around the throwing of tarts [i.e. gateaux,
cakes] at politician Pim Fortuyn, on 14 March last year in Nieuwspoort, is
having political repercussions. The youths who fouled Fortuyn appear to have
This formulation I found on a mythography site is well formulated:
In these works of Homer [i.e. the Illiad and the Odyssey], relationships
between mortals and immortals are established, and the very character and
attributes of the gods and goddesses are codified.
Source:
A couple of months ago when the Marxism list was debating whether chattel
slavery was capitalist, Rakesh Bhandari called my attention to an article
by Charles Post in the July 2003 Journal of Agrarian Change
(http://www.marxmail.org/post.pdf) that applied the Brenner thesis to the
peculiar
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