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Jul 04
general observations metaphor 6 Comments
“One always feels a bit sheepish, of course, about bringing the metaphor concept into the social sciences and perhaps that is because one always feels there is something soft and wooly about it.”
[your task, should you decide to accept it, is to attribute.]
[oh no, do not use google, that would be TOO easy.]
Apurr Sonar
Jul 04, 2010 @ 20:20:44
“..Every utterance must be regarded as primarily a response to preceding utterances in the given sphere..Each utterance refutes, affirms, supplements, and relies upon the others, presupposes them to be known, and somehow takes them into account” (Bakhtin. 1986:91: 51)
eldon
Jul 04, 2010 @ 20:30:26
Even though I was their captive, the Indians allowed me quite a bit of freedom. I could walk about freely, make my own meals, and even hurl large rocks at their heads. It was only later that I discovered they were not Indians at all, but dirty clothes hampers. — Deep Thoughts, by Jack Handey
eldon
Jul 04, 2010 @ 20:33:58
If aliens from outer space ever come and we show them our civilization and they make fun of it, we should say we were just kidding, that this isn’t really our civilization, but a gag we hoped they would like. Then we tell them to come back in twenty years to see our REAL civilization. After that, we start a crash program of coming up with an impressive new civilization. Either that, or just shoot down the aliens as they’re waving good-bye.
— Deep Thoughts, by Jack Handey
eldon
Jul 05, 2010 @ 11:21:55
OK, guessing is not good. you’re in the general area.
but as an orientation for talking about metaphor, and admitting my own penchent for analogy – surely a version thereof – i found this quotation apropos.
furthermore. i enjoy stupid puns.
also, this guy’s writing is notably obfuscatory anyway (so relevant in a very indirect way) and it seems he is being slightly self-deprecatory with this…
hence it tickles my parts. which can be tickled in that way i mean.
one more hint.
it comes from a book much-cited in ethno-linguistic circles – but not as much as one of his other books written in 1981…
Apurr Sonar
Jul 05, 2010 @ 18:06:50
May I point out to you then, that your entitling of this post is therefore contradictory?
Give me irony, give me paradox, but keep me safe from contradiction!
eldon
Jul 07, 2010 @ 14:42:32
oh pray, do not say so apurr m’dear!
no, the random was in the finding of the quotation.
aka, i did not seek it out on purpose to post it here.
but when i did find it, and read it, it tickled my fancy as it seemed relevant, and ‘apropos’ some discussions i have had, and make.