Re: He shall Purify the sons of Eli...
Tim O'Connor (tim@roughdraft.org)
Wed, 11 Mar 1998 19:14:35 -0500
> I think Vonnegut was quite the opposite of inept (ept?), so much so that
> I feel stupid saying it. As if I saw Jesus healing the blind beggar in
> Jericho and I said, "Hey, you're not a bad guy." Your misunderstanding
> was due to my poorly constructed sentence and your lack of clairvoyance,
> or perhaps your absence of will to use your clairvoyance to determine my
> obscure intentions.
No apologies needed, Brendan! I think that's the ongoing lesson of this
list (and perhaps beyond it, as participants go about their lives), which
is that written language, no matter how carefully constructed, is ambiguous
and slippery.
--tim