My contribution to scholarship
So help me god, I plan on writing a brief paper whose first sentence is "John McDowell has a problem with incontinence" (even though I actually think he has more of a problem with continence).
Update: the first sentence was actually "John McDowell has a problem with incontinence, and continence, and he knows it.". Also, even though McDowell favors "here and now", I used "hic et nunc", because I figured I had to class things up after the beginning.
Comments
on 2007-03-13 10:02:49.0, A White Bear commented:
I remember getting really frustrated when my MA thesis advisor insisted that I couldn't repeatedly claim that Tom Jones's real vice is incontinence. I hate it when words shift meaning in ways that are not useful to me.
and, further, on 2007-03-13 10:04:42.0, A White Bear commented:
On a related note, whenever I hear older people describing themselves as incontinent, I think they're being really unnecessarily harsh on themselves.
and, further, on 2007-03-13 10:11:19.0, ben wolfson commented:
Oh, I dunno; I think incontinence is a pretty common phenomenon.