JoeKingleigh Posted June 22, 2015 Share Posted June 22, 2015 "These stories are 100 percent fiction. Some of them project the names of "real" public figures onto made-up characters in made-up circumstances. Where the names of corporate, media, or political figures are used here, these names are meant only to denote figures, images, the stuff of collective dreams; they do not denote, or pretend to private information about, actual 3-D persons, living, dead, or otherwise."Joe/I'll give you a clue: he acknowledges support from The Mr and Mrs Wallace Fund for Aimless Children. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sassy Romano Posted June 22, 2015 Share Posted June 22, 2015 Given that this is a question, should someone post the answer, shouldn't this be in "Answers" instead of General Discussion? Darn it! I just asked a question thus anyone replying to me should really force this into "Answers" too. :matte-motes-confused: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikka Luik Posted June 22, 2015 Share Posted June 22, 2015 The less smart companion of Gromit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelli May Posted June 22, 2015 Share Posted June 22, 2015 A fellow of infinite jest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perrie Juran Posted June 22, 2015 Share Posted June 22, 2015 Are you testing our google-fu? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Torvalar Posted June 22, 2015 Share Posted June 22, 2015 Obviously a neomythic rabble-rouser. Take care not to be tempted and corrupted by tyrants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pleasureboi Posted June 22, 2015 Share Posted June 22, 2015 Perrie Juran wrote: Are you testing our google-fu? Quotes of that size make it something most grannys could do, eh? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_with_Curious_Hair GIRL WITH CURIOUS HAIR These stories are 100 percent fiction. Some of them project the names of "real" public figures onto made-up characters in made-up circumstances. Where the names of corporate, media, or political figures are used here, those names are meant only to denote figures, images, the stuff of collective dreams; they do not denote, or pretend to private information about, actual 3-D persons, living, dead, or otherwise. Part of "Little Expressionless Animals" makes use of the third stanza of John Ashbery's "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror" from John Ashbery's Selected Poems (Viking Press, 1985, pp. 192-193). Parts of "Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way" are written in the margins of John Barth's "Lost in the Funhouse" and Cynthia Ozick's "Usurpation (Other People's Stories)"; p. 294 of "Westward" contains the first seven lines of "Usurpation," from Cynthia Ozick's Bloodshed and Three Novellas (Afred A. Knopf, 1976, p. 132). Acknowledgment is made to the following publications in which some of the stories in this book originally appeared: "Little Expressionless Animals" in the Paris Review; "Lyndon" in Arrival; "Here and There" in Fiction; "John Billy" in Conjunctions; "My Appearance" in Playboy under the title "Late Night"; "Say Never" in the Florida Review; "Everything Is Green" in Puerto de Sol and Harper's. Copyright © 1989 by David Foster Wallace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeKingleigh Posted June 23, 2015 Author Share Posted June 23, 2015 May I point out that I didn't ask if you could find out who said it. That is a trivial Google task. Joe /I asked if you knew. //Would you all like to start again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeKingleigh Posted June 23, 2015 Author Share Posted June 23, 2015 Sassy Romano wrote: Given that this is a question, should someone post the answer, shouldn't this be in "Answers" instead of General Discussion? Darn it! I just asked a question thus anyone replying to me should really force this into "Answers" too. :matte-motes-confused: It's not a question. It's a poll. Joe /I wanted to assess two things. //The ability of participants to be able to respond accurately ///And the status of their literary enlightenment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeKingleigh Posted June 23, 2015 Author Share Posted June 23, 2015 Kelli May wrote: A fellow of infinite jest. With whom I feel a certain rapport. Joe /As my current name might suggest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeKingleigh Posted June 23, 2015 Author Share Posted June 23, 2015 Perrie Juran wrote: Are you testing our google-fu? The amusing thing being that the two top Google results for the quote are this thread. Joe /Self-referential? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dresden Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 I had no idea who said any of that, but I'm pretty sure they must have been speaking of the Bible when they said it. ...Dres (Am I right?...and, if so, do I get a prize?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perrie Juran Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 JoeKingleigh wrote: May I point out that I didn't ask if you could find out who said it. That is a trivial Google task. Joe /I asked if you knew. //Would you all like to start again? But then shouldn't the correct question have been, "Did you know who said this?" Because now I do know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeKingleigh Posted June 23, 2015 Author Share Posted June 23, 2015 Perrie Juran wrote: JoeKingleigh wrote: May I point out that I didn't ask if you could find out who said it. That is a trivial Google task. Joe /I asked if you knew. //Would you all like to start again? But then shouldn't the correct question have been, "Did you know who said this?" Because now I do know. I'll take that as a no, then. Joe /I take great care with tense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeKingleigh Posted June 23, 2015 Author Share Posted June 23, 2015 Dresden wrote: I had no idea who said any of that, but I'm pretty sure they must have been speaking of the Bible when they said it. ...Dres (Am I right?...and, if so, do I get a prize?) Good guess, Dres, but it is actually one of the oeuvres of Leehere's most favourite authors. Joe /You can have a prize anyway. //What would you like? ///Or should I start a thread on what people would like to win? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sassy Romano Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 JoeKingleigh wrote: It's not a question. It's a poll. Joe /I wanted to assess two things. //The ability of participants to be able to respond accurately ///And the status of their literary enlightenment. Nope, it's a question, has all the attributes of a question. Were it a poll, then highly accurate answers would be as simple as "yes" or "no" and you cannot determine the outcome of their literary enlightenment from that alone, as such since you cannot determine the second of your assessed attributes, the assessment is invalid. Even accurate responses cannot be determined since you would not know their literary enlightenment and therefore would not be able to validate their response to your poll if they were polled with valid and accurate yes/no outcomes. It's a question and you need qualified answers from which to assess the outcome. Just saying Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perrie Juran Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 JoeKingleigh wrote: Perrie Juran wrote: JoeKingleigh wrote: May I point out that I didn't ask if you could find out who said it. That is a trivial Google task. Joe /I asked if you knew. //Would you all like to start again? But then shouldn't the correct question have been, "Did you know who said this?" Because now I do know. I'll take that as a no, then. Joe /I take great care with tense. When I read the question I did not know. But when I answered it I did know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PersistentDigger Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 Surely "Joe" is confusing mood and tense here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelli May Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 The wrong mood will make people tense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PersistentDigger Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 Even in the right mood, I get tense about the past interfering with the present. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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