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Accidents, Auctions, Clifford Geertz, Meaning, Oops, Semiotics, Significance, Signification, Stories
Somewhere in the Phenomenology of Perception, Merleau-Ponty tells us that mankind is condemned to meaning.
Somewhere in his own works, Clifford Geerts asks what is the difference between a blink and a wink?
It’s been a long time since I read either of the works in question, but I was recently reminded of both when I came across an old family picture of my Dad with a hog he bought at a livestock auction at the state Colorado state fair.
What the little news clip accompanying the picture does not say is how my father came to came to deliver the final bid on this hog. Dad used to love telling this story. Suffice to say, the plot thickens just after he began to feel a slight itch on the tip of his nose.