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Thursday, June 16, 2016

Through The Looking-Glass: Lisa Kotora

SUPPORTER COMMENT -I would also note that when I drove down Mason Mill Road past his house on June 15, 2016 he pointed his right hand at me as if it were a gun and used his thumb to "pull the trigger." This is threatening behavior that cannot be allowed to escalate.
Lisa Kotora, Atlanta, GA48 minutes ago



YES!  YES!  YES...LISA!  
THIS IS VERY TRUE!  
 i'VE DONE ALL
 OF 
WHAT YOU SAY!
 MAY I ASK YOU A QUESTION LISA, 
"IS IT TRUE YOU CAN ONLY GET 
THREE FINGERS 
I
A BOWLING BALL?"

"GOD BLESSED YOU CHILD!"


Humpty appears in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass (1872), where he discusses semantics and pragmatics with Alice.

    "I don't know what you mean by 'glory,' " Alice said.

    Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. "Of course you don't—till I tell you. I meant 'there's a nice knock-down argument for you!' "

    "But 'glory' doesn't mean 'a nice knock-down argument'," Alice objected.

    "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less."

    "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."

    "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master—that's all."

    Alice was too much puzzled to say anything, so after a minute Humpty Dumpty began again. "They've a temper, some of them—particularly verbs, they're the proudest—adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs—however, I can manage the whole lot! Impenetrability! That's what I say!"

This passage was used in Britain by Lord Atkin in his dissenting judgement in the seminal case Liversidge v. Anderson (1942), where he protested about the distortion of a statute by the majority of the House of Lords. It also became a popular citation in United States legal opinions, appearing in 250 judicial decisions in the Westlaw database as of 19 April 2008, including two Supreme Court cases (TVA v. Hill and Zschernig v. Miller).

It has been suggested by A. J. Larner that Carroll's Humpty Dumpty had prosopagnosia on the basis of his description of his finding faces hard to recognise.

    "The face is what one goes by, generally," Alice remarked in a thoughtful tone.

    "That's just what I complain of," said Humpty Dumpty. "Your face is the same as everybody has—the two eyes,—" (marking their places in the air with his thumb) "nose in the middle, mouth under. It's always the same. Now if you had the two eyes on the same side of the nose, for instance—or the mouth at the top—that would be some help."


MAY I ASK YOU ANOTHER QUESTION LISA; 
"YOU EVER GET TIRED 
OF 
MASTURBATING 
WITH THE SAME HAND?"







TODAY I'M, "WOOFING!"


LOL

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