"I would like to say 'This book is written to the glory of God', but nowadays this would be the trick of a cheat, i.e., it would not be correctly understood."--Ludwig Wittgenstein
"OH JESUS OH WHAT THE FUCK OH WHAT IS THIS H.P. LOVECRAFT SHIT OH THERE IS NO GOD I DID NOT SIGN UP FOR THIS—Popehat
Sunday, May 26, 2019
Don't You Wish Real Life was like this?
Hey, NYT? "Existential" you say? Well, I happen to have Jean Paul Sartre right here and he doesn't say antyhing about blowing off congressional subpoenas.https://t.co/Qk1FL9OMfM
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) May 26, 2019
I know it's off topic, but Sartre was a real silly-billy in that speech. His message was essentially regretting that he wasn't kewel in May 1968 and he would have given his status as an intellectual to be.
That said, the NYT using the word that way was rather absurdist. I think it's a word that doesn't mean much anymore through too much unskilled overuse. I remember back in the late 60s or early 70s in magazine scribblage there would be a fairly unusual word that would appear in one place and the next thing you knew, you'd read ten or a dozen other magazine scribblers using it. I think it might be how "enormity" changed meaning.
I know it's off topic, but Sartre was a real silly-billy in that speech. His message was essentially regretting that he wasn't kewel in May 1968 and he would have given his status as an intellectual to be.
ReplyDeleteThat said, the NYT using the word that way was rather absurdist. I think it's a word that doesn't mean much anymore through too much unskilled overuse. I remember back in the late 60s or early 70s in magazine scribblage there would be a fairly unusual word that would appear in one place and the next thing you knew, you'd read ten or a dozen other magazine scribblers using it. I think it might be how "enormity" changed meaning.