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Edward+Koren, inappropriate, James+L.+Christian, language, New+Yorker, not+really, philosophy, Rae+Langton, Times+Literary+Supplement
“Not really” is the new “No.” Or so I thought before running across this encyclopedic account.
While you (we) are at it (I?), consider the New Yorker cartoon by Edward Koren cited in Times Literary Supplement, 9/23/11 (but earlier in a textbook, Philosophy: An Introduction to the Art of Wondering, by James L. Christian, originally published in 1973), in which the devil laments:
It’s getting much harder for me to distinguish good from evil. All I’m certain about is what’s appropriate and inappropriate.
Quoted by Rae Langton, reviewing Terry Eagleton’s On Evil (Yale).