This is a story of one house at Rataskaevu street whose former owner had wasted away his wealth and had no future. One night he became so desperate that he decided to take his life. At the fatal moment a stranger entered the room asking the broke landlords permission to celebrate a wedding on the top floor of his house the following night. In reward he promised the man all the riches but only on onecondition: no one would eavesdrop on the feast otherwise it would cost the eavesdropper his life. The landlord agreed. At the appointed time the carriages started arriving at the door and lights were lit up on the top floor window. Fabulous music sounded and the whole house shook as if under the weight of great number of dancers. When the clock struck one the whole apparition disappeared. The landlord the day before head over ears in dept was expecting a huge sum of money. At the same time his
significance the hour set may have we do not know but be on alert accordingly Stop On his desk Marshall had a scrambler telephone with which he could have called Short in Hawaii. The scrambling apparatus stood in a room next to his office, thus obviating the possibility of tapping the conversation in unscrambled form, as was done in commercial cases. But Marshall knew that scramblers afforded protection merely against casual listeners; they could be penetrated by a determined eavesdropper with proper equipment. He had on several occasions warned the President about security on his transatlantic telephone conversations with Ambassador Bullitt in France and later with Churchill—a wise move, for, though he did not know it, the Nazis had already penetrated that scrambler. The Japanese had evidenced some interest in the San Francisco-Honolulu scrambler, and Marshall was acutely sensitive "that the Japanese would have grasped at most any straw" to suggest to the isola-
metaphorical utterances. That cognitive value manifestly does not derive from their usually bizarre literal meanings. Moran (1997) adds the example of embedding in conditional antecedents ("If music be the food of love, play on," or even "If music is the food of love, I'm going to buy some records"). A cognate point is that, if Davidson is right, one can never misinterpret a metaphor.6 If in response to Romeo's utterance of (2), some eavesdropper had chirped, "I get it!--Juliet depresses him because she's so stupid and she smells horrible," on the Causal Theory this would not have been an incor- rect account of Romeo's metaphorical utterance, but only evidence that the eavesdropper's mental architecture was causally different from Romeo's and from ours. Moreover, as Goodman (1981) urges, Davidson cannot allow for meta- phorical truth. If metaphorical utterances have only literal meaning, there
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