Introduces a number of assumptions upon which the entire course rests. Explores the vertical ladder of abstraction, how the same words in different order have different meanings, that the way sentences convey information adds to or changes the information, and that there’s no difference between style and content.
Assignment: Provide sentences of varying lengths that give you pleasure.
A sentence from A Child’s Christmas in Wales, that gives me pleasure although almost any sentence Dylan Thomas writes in that work gives me pleasure to read and to hear.
“She looked at the three tall firemen in their shining helmets, standing among the smoke and cinders and dissolving snowballs, and she said: ‘Would you like anything to read?'”