I am what I am ....

[Robin Hamilton]

Philosophy:  Wittgenstein:  "The world is all that is the case."

Literature:  Gertrude Stein:  "A rose is a rose is a rose."

Self-Referential:  Three Black Words.

        ... or as King Lear said, "Who is it that can tell me who I am?"

Robin

(On the principle that mentioning Count Alfred Korzybski at every
opportunity is A Good Thing, could this entire collocation of phrases be
subsumed under an identification of the map with the territory?

        "The map is not the country -- except in mathematics"

R.)

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> Oh, also: from the Deer Hunter: "This is this." From Ayn Rand (and
> Laurie Anderson): "Let X=X."
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> James Harbeck.
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