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Re: You're So Smart!

Post by Stephen Whiteside » Mon Sep 22, 2014 6:46 am

Well, Neville, I've had a night to sleep on it, and I still can't see a link between my poem and postmodernism. Can you help me? (I agree with surgical analogy, by the way.)
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Re: You're So Smart!

Post by Neville Briggs » Mon Sep 22, 2014 8:15 am

Just a suggestion of a slight connection I suppose ; uncertainty about whether a triangle has four or three sides, sounds a bit postmodernist. Glennie reckons I'm mega introspective :lol: maybe I read too much into things, but your poem seemed to invite speculation about the nature of truth, and the question of knowing.
Maybe it reveals more about your musings than you realise. :)
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Re: You're So Smart!

Post by Stephen Whiteside » Mon Sep 22, 2014 8:18 am

Yes, my own feeling is just that the narrator is an idiot.
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Re: You're So Smart!

Post by Maureen K Clifford » Mon Sep 22, 2014 9:17 am

I failed maths - aaargh :o running away fast :lol:
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Re: You're So Smart!

Post by Neville Briggs » Mon Sep 22, 2014 9:19 am

Maybe Stephen, but I think there have been some wonderful discoveries because somebody asked an
" idiotic " question. Edward de Bono calls it lateral thinking. :)
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Re: You're So Smart!

Post by Stephen Whiteside » Mon Sep 22, 2014 10:23 am

Point taken.
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Re: You're So Smart!

Post by Ron » Tue Sep 23, 2014 8:29 pm

'Point Taken' you may well be on to someting there Stephen! if you took a point from a four sided triangle would it not leave it with three sides? I mean didn't Stephen Hawkings and his cobbers all talk about triangular separation and all that stuff?
8-) :roll: (I'd better get back to Marty's mate in the pub! :D )
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Re: You're So Smart!

Post by Stephen Whiteside » Wed Sep 24, 2014 7:44 am

Yes, Ron, I'm pretty sure you're right. Brilliant!
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