Keelefilosoofia raamat
Meaning and understanding
Not many people know that, in 1931, Adolf Hitler made a visit to the United
States, in the course of which he did some sightseeing, had a brief affair with a
lady named Maxine in Keokuk, Iowa, tried peyote (which caused him to hal-
lucinate hordes of frogs and toads wearing little boots and singing the Horst
Wessel Lied), infiltrated a munitions plant near Detroit, met secretly with
Vice-President Curtis regarding sealskin futures, and invented the electric
can opener.
There is a good reason why not many people know all that: none of it
is true. But the remarkable thing is that just now, as you read through my
opening sentence--let us call it sentence (1)--you understood it perfectly,
whether or not you were ready to accept it, and you did so without the slight-
est conscious effort.
Remarkable, I said. It probably does not strike you as remarkable or sur-
prising, even now that you have noticed it
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