On 4/9/13 5:47 PM, Peter Ring wrote:

You know, the only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I
can resist everything but temptation ...

Have you been spending too much time with the ontologists?

Paying words for the work they do does seem like a good idea, though...

Thanks,
Simon

> Impenetrability!
>

'I don't know what you mean by "glory",' Alice said.

Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. 'Of course you don't — till I tell
you. I meant "there's a nice knock-down argument for you!"'

'But "glory" doesn't mean "a nice knock-down argument",' Alice objected.

'When *I* use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone,

'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.'

'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you *can* make words mean so

many different things.'

'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master — that's all.'

Alice was too much puzzled to say anything; so after a minute Humpty
Dumpty began again. 'They've a temper, some of them — particularly
verbs: they're the proudest — adjectives you can do anything with, but

not verbs — however, *I* can manage the whole lot of them!
Impenetrability! That's what *I* say!'

'Would you tell me please,' said Alice, 'what that means?'

'Now you talk like a reasonable child,' said Humpty Dumpty, looking very
much pleased. 'I meant by "impenetrability" that we've had enough of
that subject, and it would be just as well if you'd mention what you
mean to do next, as I suppose you don't mean to stop here all the rest
of your life.'

'That's a great deal to make one word mean,' Alice said in a thoughtful
tone.

'When I make a word do a lot of work like that,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'I
always pay it extra.'

'Oh!' said Alice. She was too much puzzled to make any other remark.

'Ah, you should see 'em come round me of a Saturday night,' Humpty
Dumpty went on, wagging his head gravely from side to side, 'for to get
their wages, you know.'

(Alice didn't venture to ask what he paid them with; and so you see I

can't tell *you*.)

'You seem very clever at explaining words, Sir,' said Alice. 'Would you
kindly tell me the meaning of the poem called "Jabberwocky"?'

'Let's hear it,' said Humpty Dumpty. 'I can explain all the poems that
ever were invented — and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.'

--
Simon St.Laurent
http://simonstl.com/

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