Today it is so foggy outside that the weather appears to be malfunctioning. One wants to call the weather company and hear the customer service representative say that they're "working on it", that they hope to have it "up and running" later today.
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For some reason this makes me think of Lerner's "Angle of Yaw"...
I don't know. I mean I'm flattered, of course. But there's something a bit too cute about this one. Unlike say, "...the object responsible for the greatest number of choking deaths, for adults as well as children, is the red balloon. Last year alone, every American choked to death on a red balloon."
Yes, you are right.
Lerner’s nonsense from the second part of “Angle of Yaw” (to which you are referring and of which I was also thinking) seems to demand something from us; it is prescriptive, since it seems to indicate that something is broken (within us, within our feelings, within our perception, within our society). Whereas your thing just seems a “cute” observation.
But your cute nonsensical remark does however also seem to me to have a trait alike to that. “Customer service representative”. It is a nice objective term. And it seems to indicate that one is really prone to thinking of the weather as a sort of commodity. And thereby, it also seems to indicate, by analogy, that something is wrong within our perceptual/conceptual scheme. In any case, it makes me feel slightly uncomfortable about my perception of certain things.
But yeah, sure, Lerner makes more things than you itch in me.
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