Re: Words, words, words

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> "Semiotics."  Now, there's a curious word.  Meaning is so derned
> undecidable these days, so overdetermined.
> 
> I wondered about those two quotations becuase I thought you were
> suggesting I had written them both.

No ... semiotics is all about juxtaposition, and putting those two quotes
together simply generated the particular meaning I was after. As far as
semiotics goes, I simply mean that as soon as we read something Harold
Ober-esque, our first thought is `Oh, here we go. Someone is trying to shut
us up ...' The semiotics and the actual meaning are two different things.
It's like if you saw a big red octagonal sign with `GO' written on it.
You'd probably stop before you actually obeyed the `go'.

Camille
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