December 18th, 2011 § 1 Comment
“The pleasure of the sentence is to a high degree cultural. The artifact created by rhetors, grammarians, linguists, teachers, writers, parents—this artifact is mimicked in a more or less ludic manner; we are playing with an exceptional object, whose paradox has been articulated by linguistics: immutably structured and yet infinitely renewable: something like chess.
“Unless for some perverts the sentence is a body?”
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Didn’t realize this theme keeps the tags on the inside (nice of them to, I guess, but now this seems unsigned.)