I am what I am ....
Laurence Horn
laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Fri Apr 23 04:15:25 UTC 2010
At 3:01 AM +0100 4/23/10, Robin Hamilton wrote:
>Philosophy: Wittgenstein: "The world is all that is the case."
>
>Literature: Gertrude Stein: "A rose is a rose is a rose."
I thought she had it as "Rose is a rose is a rose", at least
originally, which is less tautological (and might even be
contradictory except as a metaphor).
LH
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