Saturday, November 19, 2011

Paradox and Tautology

Educators in the past had no time for either the pouring in or drawing out methodologies so beloved of the now very
newsworthy Greeks.
The accusatory method was much in vogue when I was processed through what one Irish patriot once called "The Murder Machine".
it seemed that most students excelled at every stylistic mistake known to humanity since the Babylonians.
Daily one's essays were found to be either paradoxical or tautological.   In Irish, this was not much of a problem.
Repeating "Ochon" (with the fadas neatly in place) was both culturally acceptable and seemed to not (not to?) cause too much offense.
The aforementioned P and T began to entertain me so much that I decided to use them as often as possible
and to as much humourous effect as would get me through the French Revolution without feeling ill (Robespierre was a stumbling block at the best of times)
but not  excessively to the point of being banished from class or put staring at the wall in the corner.
And just in case anybody thought that the "avenging principle of vengeance" in the previous post is either tautological
or paradoxical, or both, it is used to express the double edged nature of vengeance in all its aspects.

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