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> Or do you mean the green of Chomsky's furiously sleeping colourless ideas?
Dominic, you clearly have vehement or, minimally, a strongly dismissive view
of Chomsky. I won't go there.
However I was being ironic. I don't have the exact quote of his example of a
grammatical sentence (of which you "bowel"darize) that he uses to exemplify
something that does not make, at least, common sense - which includes
"furious sleeping green ideas" or some such.
The sentence made some kind of sense to me in that Marvellian sense of a
"green thought in a green shade." I wanted, I suspect, to honor Chomsky's
unintended slip into poetry - not exactly his strong suite - and sweet here
that it is.
No one (ultimately), it appears, can escape "poetry". Tho I wait in vain for
George Bush to slip - tho he appears to have left Poetry with Laura B and
Dana Gioia (sp??) to carry the bag. I suspect we will not hear George
(speaking of someone only seemingly possessed of "furious sleeping colouress
ideas") ever confess, (First Step) "I am powerless over Poetry."
By the way, I think Noam is pretty good at talking about the consequences of
monsterist thoughts and actions. & thank goodness.) Oops, I said I would
not go there!
Stephen V
Blog: http://stephenvincent.durationpress.com
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