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From the Sublime to the ...
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Jlspe-@aol.com
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Mar 06, 2004 19:34 PST
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In a message dated 3/6/2004 10:20:10 PM Eastern Standard Time,
alok-@vsnl.com writes:
Stay with the name - and "ideas" indicates our "philosophical" aspirations
without getting us all tangled up in academic boundary niceties, seems to
me.
Alok Rai
Dept of English,
Delhi University,
Delhi,India
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This reminds me of something else Sibley says. He notes, wisely, that we
speak of 'ideals' of beauty, but not of ideals of ugliness. Surely if 'ideal' is
just 'idea', why can't one have an ideal of ugliness? (How can the suffix '-al'
make all the difference?) I guess that's the trick with French joilaid, too.
Cheers,
JL
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