Kingsley Amis - The Voice of Authority: A Language Game

Kingsley Amis - The Voice of Authority: A Language Game

Do this. Don't move. O'Grady says do this, br You get a move on, see, do what I say. br Look lively when I say O'Grady says. br br Say this. Shut up. O'Grady says say this, br You talk fast without thinking what to say. br What goes is what I say O'Grady says. br br Or rather let me put the point like this: br O'Grady says what goes is what I say br O'Grady says; that's what O'Grady says. br br By substituting you can shorten this, br Since any god you like will do to say br The things you like, that's what O'Grady says. br br The harm lies not in that, but in that this br Progression's first and last terms are I say br O'Grady says, not just O'Grady says. br br Yet it's O'Grady must be out of this br Before what we say goes, not what we say br O'Grady says. Or so O'Grady says.


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Uploaded: 2014-11-10

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