३१ जुलै, २००९

"What other kind of too-narrow focus provides, for one and all, a diagnostic name for itself?"

"If you're ethnocentric, does your culture include a folk dance acknowledging the limitations of your outlook? Is there a beeper that goes off when you get too technocentric? If you're iconocentric, where's the visual image that's going to tell you that you are?"

I'll tell you who's saying that and what he's talking about after you bandy the question around a while.

ADDED: The quote is from "Alphabet Juice," by Roy Blount Jr., and he's talking about the word "logocentric."

९ टिप्पण्या:

rhhardin म्हणाले...

Don't forget eccentric.

bearbee म्हणाले...

Doubtless the administration has experts working on a solution.

Bissage म्हणाले...
ही टिप्पणी लेखकाना हलविली आहे.
Bissage म्हणाले...

The beauty of being ironocentric is in the appreciation of its infinite boundaries.

अनामित म्हणाले...

My spouse is ironocentric. She won't go out of the house until every wrinkle has been eliminated; no beauty in that kind of obsession.

pdug म्हणाले...

"logocentric"

or worse:

"phallogocentric"

dbp म्हणाले...

The realization that the study of over specialization is itself an example of overspecialization!

Michael Haz म्हणाले...

I am highly Mikeocentric. But that's just me.

Peter Hoh म्हणाले...

If you're metriccentric, does your gram call to tell you that your meter is running?