Within and Without

Discussing her interactions with the medical establishment just now, Kim commented that, "They'll listen to me because I know how to speak with authority." I'd never noticed the double meaning in that expression before. In order to speak with authority, you have to speak with authority. I like the symmetry that implies. It functions much like the one invoked by the word "subject," as famously remarked by the French thinkers Jacques Lacan and Louis Althusser: the subject of a sentence is subject to the sentence.

Cut Short

I had this inspiration today to name a band The Guilloteens. But I was beaten to it.