ENGB35H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Dazzle Camouflage, Bacon, Lewis Carroll
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Book for this week: the water-babies (charles kingsley) Paradox: a statement that, despite apparently sound reasoning from true premises, leads to a self-contradictory or a logically unacceptable conclusion; or one that involves contradictory yet interrelated elements that exist simultaneously and persist over time? (from prof"s notes) Many paradoxes begin with anecdote then change into probability thing. Catch 22 famous paradox (joseph keller: catch-22: a situation in which someone is in need of something that can only be had by not being in need of it. The unnamable but in not naming it, you"re still naming it. Gertrude stein writing about individual vs. the group. Interesting number paradox: the first number that can be considered dull rather than. Good witch = pretty, bad = ugly; unfair but that"s how you symbolize who"s good/bad with appearance. Alice in wonderland queen = ugly = bad. Parody of compulsion to find moral in everything.
