Chomsky, anyone?

I hope that Europeans realise that it really only is absence that makes their hearts grow so strangely fond of Noam Chomsky, and that they don’t take up Eric Bakovic’s suggestion and deprive the Empire of a major source of export revenues. I first bumped into Chomsky when an ambitious professor thought it would be a really good idea to apply transformational grammar to music. During an ensuing drunken nocturnal conversation, several of us debated stuffing some garlic, a mallet and a fence post into an overnight bag and hitching a ride to Boston, but then we decided that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were a greater danger. How wrong we were!

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