“Cogito, ergo sum,” quoth Descartes. Only that’s … so much effort…
Can I just am without thinking? The verb to am -- I am you am he am she am …
-- David Lodge, Thinks… (2001),
p. 4
The novelist’s here wrestling with the innards of language, recalls
the essay of Woody Allen, who, finding “I love you” too hackneyed, said to his
paramour: “I… loave you… I lerve you …”
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