You do not currently have permission to view the full text for this document. Please sign in to an account with an active subscription or contact support.
MYSELF Since I cannot, for all my experience, analytic or other than analytic, say who I am, I know now that it is very unlikely that I shall know any better at some future date. It is impossible to believe that anyone who is not me will know better. I am sure it would be useful if I knew who that person is that I am compelled to be as long as I exist. Sometimes I make ‘mistakes’ so extra-ordinary that I do not recognize that extraordinary person might be me; similarly, the mistake I make is hard to recognize because it compels me to recognize that I am its creator, producer, father; I am both unique, and therefore extraordinary, and so utterly ordinary that I merit being qualified as extra-ordinary. As for my products …
ALL Sh, sh, sh! And they all … that was only Roland.
ROSEMARY ‘Only’ pornography, ‘only’ sex.
MYSELF ‘Only’ can be a verbal method of limiting the universe of discussion. The problem and the person or thing concerned with its solution would seem to be helped if there were some way in which the two could be matched to the human mind; could ‘only’ have to solve what problems it had to solve, say, for survival.
Philosophers, mathematicians, might attempt to forge tools adequate for tasks they, the human animals, need to solve if they need to survive. Generally it is supposed that it is possible to do things better, being animals, when the live thing is alive than when the ‘live’ thing becomes a dead thing and vice versa. A stick or stone is uncooperative, but it can be made ‘cooperative’; some objects, like a flint, can be manipulated by being turned into a flint axe or hammer which cannot do things, but makes it easier for the hand aided by the flint. This discovery creates the feeling of love and gratitude between the
man and his tool. Conversely, the live and helpful thing can become hateful if it dies.
ROSEMARY It? What is that?
MYSELF It is a participle. If ‘it’ is about something, it doesn't end by being a grammatical term – ‘only’. Equally ‘it’ cou