Re: More journalistic "standards" from Alekhine's Parrot


<jamesrynd@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Chess One wrote:
John Milton put it thus:

Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any
outward touch as the sunbeam.


Nice poetry, bad physics.

Yes, the inverse of Bacon? But who am I to critise Milton's English and
philosophic commentary in the same space as our own Dr Dowd?

It's kinda too bad that all these pretty
little fantasy analogies apply to just about anything; one imagines

But I thought this was an emphasis on physics? That is, on scientific
method, rather than what one imagines in place of any fact?

Phil never took the time to read Acquinas and learn that language has
its limits.

The son of the Count of Aquino is a bit late for my interests, but also too
early to influence much of the land-use and sociology of the middle middle
ages, especially since most people couldn't read, even priests couldn't, and
the gent being somewhat overly ecclesiastically inclined for that purpose -
I note he never mentioned manure piles or rotational coppicing with any
enthusiasm.

Unfortunately, small minds revel in its limits;

Well said! Except in English we would say, 'small minds revel in their
limits', unless the intent of the 'its' is to refer to the same vague
tautological statement given above.

Though perhaps it is worth pointing out that you can't eat language, or make
a boat out of it, or use it to patch the roof. Not that Acquinas as he
spelled his name early, or Aquinas, late, was quite on the same scale as
Milton whom we started with, nor even Dante, and certainly not Shagsper, and
not that this immodest estimation of his own expressability would have
occured to himself! Though I hear God was not quite on the same page as our
Thom, which Thom admitted at extraordinary bloody length.

converting
them to rhetorical devices with all the power of a Fool's mate, working
only against the uninformed.

Another mixed-matador, brother? Anyway, at least it labors, I admire the
work you put into your English, though to sense:

He prosecutes the ground,
Where he is faulty found.

A happy couplet, no? And not Montaigne as you might know although he much
honoured the phrases even though he seemed to like Virgil the more, but
Ovid, from Trist. iv. El. i. 34.

Cordially, Phil





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