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The First Fule of Book Club is...
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 6:03 pm
by rhian
...oh look, it's me !
Go and write your own books
Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 4:43 am
by amateurphilosophynerd
Go and write your own books and make your mind blowing individual unique distinct mark on the world that is you divided by world population of 6-9bn for possiblities.
No wonder we are arranged in tribal/ cultural/interest groupings...
Write a bloody book!
Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 11:47 pm
by amateurphilosophynerd
learn to write etc etc.
Is there some new knowledge waiting to come out?
Re: The First Fule of Book Club is...
Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 7:51 am
by Emily
The first rule of book club is you do not talk about book club. The second rule of book club is you do not talk about book club!
Re: The First Fule of Book Club is...
Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 10:03 am
by Richard Baron
Emily wrote:The first rule of book club is you do not talk about book club. The second rule of book club is you do not talk about book club!
But perhaps we can, without breaking either of these two rules, mention (not use) the name "book club" and then rely on other people's tacit, and arguably non-articulable, understanding of semantics to treat us as if we were talking about the book club. There are echoes here of the
Analysis problem that Elizabeth Anscombe set in 1956:
http://analysis.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/ ... 16/6/121-a