> "Nonsense is a threat...to the univocality of common sense, and is thus
> articulated as a separate, impossible, or unrealizable domain. Nonsense is
> thereby a domain between realizable domains, a domain that does not count,
> and we have seen that ...its liminal status is important for members making a
> transistion between realizable domains. It is a place to stand in the middle of
> change. Here again, we can see the importance of nonsense and other
> "impossible contents" for getting from one state of things to another, the
> motion that is characteristic not only of change, but of learning as well."
I find this rather an overblown claim for nonesense..... the word itself and all its connotations seem to me to confirm the secure status of 'sense'. Nonesense is safe, comic and reassuring isnt it?
Liz
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