[lbo-talk] UK threatens to storm Ecuadorean Embassy, kidnap Assange

Michael Smith mjs at smithbowen.net
Sun Aug 19 07:34:41 PDT 2012


On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 08:07:21 +1000 Bill Bartlett <billbartlett at aapt.net.au> wrote:


> Yes indeed, the Tweedledum/Tweedledee theory that words mean only
> what you want them to mean. But I don't get my philosophy from Alice
> In Wonderland.

You could do worse. Carroll's (I mean Lewis Carroll, not our Carrol, though the comment applies to him too) was a very subtle mind.

I don't think we owe the comment about meaning to T & T, though; that was somebody else; the Red Queen, maybe? Too lazy to look it up.

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