Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains
CNN reported at the time that the footwear rule came into play after the local mountain rescue crews became exacerbated by having to rescue so many people tripping over their own feet. "These are difficult paths, in some cases, similar to mountain paths,” Patrizio Scarpellini, director of the Cinque Terre National Park, told CNN Travel. “Essential to have proper shoes!”
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“Scarpellini” roughly means “Little Shoes,” strangely enough.
Little shoes can be rugged too.
You do know, however, why I posted that vignette.
If the rescue crews became exacerbated, perhaps they should be changed along with all the shoes, since the crews became worse by having to rescue so many people. Apparently, for these crews, practice does not make perfect.
Change the shoes and the crews! Don’t trip on your Italian trip!
But it looks like someone updated the CNN report with ‘exasperated.’
Elliot,
Are you telling me that the CCN fake-newsers removed the cynosure of my implied mockery? The bastards!
Bill,
It seems the malaprop is no more. Or perhaps it still exists at its temporal location.
Elliot,
Speaking of temporal locations and the the philosophy of time, are you familiar with John Bigelow’s Lucretian defense of presentism?
https://philpapers.org/rec/BIGPAP
As for leftist journalists — journos as I call them — I would have no objection to their existence as long as said existence is tenseless and every single journo occupied a temporal location earlier than the ones we pick out with our uses of ‘now.’
Bro Bill, you have execrated the journalists.
Bro Joe,
I would call it a limited, generic execration inasmuch as it is limited to leftist journalists, and is consistent with allowing that some few of the journos are sometimes honest and professional.
I should also add that I have very high respect for journalists who put themselves in harm’s way to get the story, this includes some journos: some of these men and women, as otherwise benighted and despicable as they are, do manifest a high degree of courage. Courage is a virtue regardless of what one is courageous about.
I got “execrate” on a triple word score in scrabble once.
Bill,
I haven’t read Bigelow’s paper. Thanks for the link!
Joe,
One rarely sees ‘execrate,’ but it made it into Merriam-Webster’s.
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