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suddenly I get reminded that colorless green ideas sleep furiously
by martin1975 9y ago
suddenly I get reminded that colorless green ideas sleep furiously
- kazinator 9y agoSomething can be colorless, yet green metaphorically (immature, new, inexperienced). Ideas can certainly be green in this sense, and lacking physical form they are colorless. Something can sleep metaphorically if it is not being put to use. Sleep can be furious; I've seen it. Just perhaps not the kind of sleep that is slept by ideas that have fallen by the wayside. That may be the irresolvable crux of the problem with that sentence: finding a semantics for "sleep" which is compatible with some interpretation of "furiously", where the sleeping subject can be "ideas". Perhaps the modern grammatical transitive sense of "to sleep" can rescue it. These days we can "sleep a device" meaning "to put it to sleep". "Bob furiously slept his tablet computer, turned out the lights and himself went to sleep". Maybe some ideas furiously sleep us. This entire comment sleeps furiously nearly every reader.
- martin1975 9y agoNoam would be proud