clearly obscure

[Bronte]

In a narrative, obscurity is probably counter-productive... and obscurity for its own sake is pointless... but there's a difference between being obscure and not being explicit.

Some people like to be hit over the head with meaning. As long as there are sufficient keys, I like to unlock it for myself.

Hello all,

Ludwig said, "It is my aim to teach you to pass
from a piece of disguised nonsense to something
that is patent nonsense."

With this, and the subject of this thread, a reader
will expect my comment to be about clarity and ob-
scurity and nonsense-- but it's not.

It's about Wittgenstein's mixed prepositional meta-
phor in his written words above. The quotation fits
the thread, for sure-- but my comment to follow makes
its own yarn.

A person can't 'aim' to.
A persosn must 'aim' at.

'aim' is a metaphor.

I aimed the gun 'to' the head of Jesse James just as
he reached into the safe at West Plains Frontier Bank
in ElDorado, Missouri.

I aimed the gun at the head of Jessie .....

I aimed the gun 'toward' the ... Shot will probably
miss and James will turn and blow your head off.

I aimed the arrow 'at' the apple sitting on my son's
head. The Cupid/Angel aimed his arrows 'at' Bernini's
Saint Theresa, while she orgasmed for the third time.

'toward' would work here, as there is no specific 'zone'
in nuns.

V

I personally need to be hit over the head and will continue to keep lessons such as you give. I still like to learn a new trick every day.. kiss!