Monday, June 28, 2010

1/ Colourless Green Ideas

With this blog I plan to present a new short blog entry every day (almost), offering a series of short essays, titled:
Colourless Green Ideas
Short Essays and Alternative Versions


Here's the first entry:

1/ Colourless green ideas sleep furiously

"Colourless green ideas sleep furiously." Noam Chomsky meant this to represent a phrase that sounded like English, had the flavour and structure of English syntax, but made no sense.

For me, however, the phrase is a precise and poetic definition for dreaming.


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