As a *quorum* is a select group, usually enough people at a meeting to make
it constitutional, I figure the first line sets up the irony - as if to say
'there is the initiator/ideas person in attendance and this person is doing
all the work, while in the second line - 'the rest have their heads buried
in the proverbial sand, doing nothing' - if this is the set up of the irony,
then *dipped in the sand* doesn't seem to deliver this effect strongly
enough. A better word than *dipped* perhaps.
Just guessing.
Best
HH
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>
> THE QUORUM
>
>
> a single drop loads the foliage
>
>
> *
>
>
> treetops dipped in the earth
>
>
>
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>"Why is it not possible for me to doubt that I have never been on the moon?
> And how
>could I try to doubt it? First and foremost, the supposition that perhaps
>I have
>been there would strike me as idle. Nothing would follow from it, nothing
>be
>explained by it. It would not tie in with anything in my life...
>Philosophical
>problems occur when language goes on holiday. We must not separate ideas
>from life,
>we must not be misled by the appearances of sentences: we must investigate
>the
>application of words in individual language-games" - Ludwig
>Wittgenstein
>
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