[Ads-l] organically

[Jonathan Lighter]

> Write anything. Let the reader sort it out.

A tenet of certain postmodernist critics.

To do otherwise, as in outdated patriarchal-imperial prose, would be to lay
one's own trip on the reader, colonizing his/her mind while denying her/him
the freedom to think for himself/herself.

JL



On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 6:05 PM, Benjamin Barrett <mail.barretts at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The Oxford Dictionary site (
> http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/organic?searchDictCode=all
> <
> http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/organic?searchDictCode=all>)
> has this meaning:
>
> Characterized by gradual or natural development:
> the organic growth of community projects
>
> Wiktionary’s definitions (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/organic <
> https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/organic>) hint at a possible line of
> development.
>
> Benjamin Barrett
> Formerly of Seattle, WA
>
> > On 17 Apr 2016, at 11:11, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
> >
> > CNN:
> >
> > "The concept...isn't  something the Sanders campaign comes up with. It's
> > something his supporters do organically."
> >
> > "Without prompting; naturally and spontaneously."
> >
> > Not really  in OED. The third or fourth time I've heard this in the past
> > several weeks.
> >
> > JL
>
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