Posted by Peter H on September 18, 2007 at 17:38:22 from 86.130.135.149 user Peter_H.
In Reply to: Re: existentialism and luggage to RN Rank abbreviations posted by Owen Roberts on September 18, 2007 at 16:48:25:
if you understand Derrida you are ahead of most of us
Well, to be honest if someone had mentioned Derrida to me 24 hours ago I would have guessed that he was a player that Middlesbrough sold last season.
doesn't the absence of Cdr Walker on the steamer and his presence on the Goblin and the presumed . . . presence of his luggage of the steamer and its absence on the Goblin signify the transitoriness of his existence in the lives of the Swallows?
These propositions might symbolise the transitoriness of Cdr Walker’s existence in the lives of the Swallows but I don’t see how they signify it. In any case we can logically deduce the transitoriness from the data AR gives us. I would dispute the ‘presence of his luggage on the steamer’ because we are given no data on this. We just don’t know. Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. (Now who did he play for?)
I owe Andy half a non-deconstructed apology re ‘Cmdr’. Prompted by Owen’s post, I found a useful site on this. Cdr = Commander. Cdre = Commodore. However ‘Cmdr’ apparently does not exist, like the luggage. I have occasionally seen, though, ‘Lt-Cmdr’ used for lieutenant-commander.