I, even I, would celebrate, in rhymes inept the great...

Norwood, Frederick Hudson · 17 Oct 2014, 16:04 · from 2014-October.txt.gz

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From: NORWOODR at mail.etsu.edu (Norwood, Frederick Hudson)
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 16:04:33 +0000
Subject: (urth) I, even I, would celebrate, in rhymes inept the great...
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Good one, Lee.

Rick Norwood

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From: Urth [mailto:urth-bounces at lists.urth.net] On Behalf Of Lee
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Subject: (urth) I, even I, would celebrate, in rhymes inept the great...

>Marc Aramini: These are linguistic truths built into the definitions themselves ...

>Antonio Marques: Even merely human communication and language are not chained

>to what logic is able to dream of.

I am thinking of the Biblical passage in which "a cherubim" is set to guard the Garden of

Eden. An illogical linguistic construction, where a singular article is paired with a plural 

noun, is used to describe an angelic being which does not fit into a logical framework of 

human comprehension yet still, apparently, is assumed to exist. 		 	   		  
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