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Reconstructo
 
Reply Mon 7 Dec, 2009 10:36 pm
@Victor Eremita,
Oh that's cute. Where's Moe?

It's from Henry Miller. I guess if it didn't come out of some dead philosophers mouth, it's a little too tough for you to figure out on your own......
 
kennethamy
 
Reply Mon 7 Dec, 2009 10:42 pm
@Reconstructo,
Reconstructo;109073 wrote:
Oh that's cute. Where's Moe?

It's from Henry Miller. I guess if it didn't come out of some dead philosophers mouth, it's a little too tough for you to figure out on your own......


Isn't Miller a dead author? But I do wish it were a juicy steak. Nothing comes out of a dead philosopher's mouth any more than anything can come out of any dead person's mouth. You know that.
 
Reconstructo
 
Reply Mon 7 Dec, 2009 10:51 pm
@Victor Eremita,
That's just stupid. I liked you better as Data.
 
longknowledge
 
Reply Mon 7 Dec, 2009 11:37 pm
@kennethamy,
kennethamy;109078 wrote:
Nothing comes out of a dead philosopher's mouth any more than anything can come out of any dead person's mouth. You know that.

I am the mouth of a dead person, my favorite philosopher, Jose Ortega y Gasset. Through me he speaks. Viva Ortega!
 
kennethamy
 
Reply Mon 7 Dec, 2009 11:47 pm
@longknowledge,
longknowledge;109112 wrote:
I am the mouth of a dead person, my favorite philosopher, Jose Ortega y Gasset. Through me he speaks. Viva Ortega!


That's not called, "mouth". That is called, "mouthpiece".
 
Reconstructo
 
Reply Mon 7 Dec, 2009 11:47 pm
@Victor Eremita,
"Mouth" is a metaphor. It works just fine. You understood him well enough to "correct" him.

And of course we are all influenced, very much so. Lucky us.

It's good to love the stains of a great dead mind.
 
kennethamy
 
Reply Tue 8 Dec, 2009 12:13 am
@Reconstructo,
Reconstructo;109121 wrote:
"Mouth" is a metaphor. It works just fine. You understood him well enough to "correct" him.

And of course we are all influenced, very much so. Lucky us.

It's good to love the stains of a great dead mind.


The mot juste is "mouthpiece". As in, "I ain't sayin' a word until I call my mouthpiece".
 
Reconstructo
 
Reply Tue 8 Dec, 2009 12:16 am
@Victor Eremita,
Alright, but it's clearly a matter of taste. We humans are dopes for tropes.
 
longknowledge
 
Reply Wed 9 Dec, 2009 01:54 am
@Reconstructo,
Reconstructo;109144 wrote:
Alright, but it's clearly a matter of taste. We humans are dopes for tropes.

Yeah, but some people skip to tropes, while other trip on them.
 
 

 
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