What actually occurs in our minds when we use language with the intention of meaning something by it? What is the relation subsisting between thoughts, words, or sentences, and that which they refer to or mean? What relation must one fact (such as a sentence) have to another in order to be capable of being a symbol for that other? Using sentences so as to convey truth rather than falsehood?
Tuesday 3 July 2012
THE MOON AND SIXPENCE
The 3rd of July
is a day of birthdays shared by Franz Kafka, 1883 (died 1924); Ken Russell,
1927 (died 2011); Tom Stoppard, 1937; and the wonderful George Sanders, 1906
(died 1972).
Here is a wonderful film staring George Sanders, made
in 1942 entitled The Moon and Sixpence,
from a novel by Somerset Maugham. It is a story based on the life of Gaugin. I
think it’s worth a look.
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