Beauvoir & V. in a C/c atholic Man's World

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Ian Livingston wrote (in part):

Yeah, I think change always outpaces linguistic descriptions of it.
We're always trying to talk about what happened... people can never talk 
about the
present. It is, quite literally, ineffable.
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William James's specious present.


On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 7:36 AM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Agreed. Language will eventually catch up with the changes of the last
>> couple centuries. Or not.
>
> this seems to suggest that the last couple of centuries of change are
> something language either needs to chase after or is something
> language can not catch. or is it a catch 22? the second sex, like the
> education, like the white goddess, like the golden bough...quests that
> cast a huge net, are confessions of lost faith. one suspects that this
> has something to do with stencil.
>



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