From: markodegard@...
Message: 8715
Date: 2001-08-24
> Mark O:I am being killed by an impassive agent of lexical laxity.
> >He kills = he does murder/slaughter = he is a murderer/works in an
> >abbatoir. "Kill" is also intransitive.
> >
> >I shoulda used another verb.
>
> All this talk is killing me... or am I being killed by all this
> talk? By all this talk, being the agent, am I, the patient, being
> killed? Am I being killed by the abstract agent or by the passive
> verb? Is that possible?? I suppose one could be killed by stranger
> things, like accidentally placing your head in a bandsaw or the
> excess consumption of Spam. What was the subject again? Was it
> the same as the agent? If a patient falls in the forest,
> does anybody hear? Speaking of patients, it's time for my
> meds... Toodeleydoo!