Re: Ask Carl

["Carl W. Glover" <glover@msmary.edu>]

Dear Paula,
	Which beach?
					Warm regards,



					Carl W. Glover
					glover@msmary.edu

On Mon, 5 Feb 1996 gillespiep@vmsa.csd.mu.edu wrote:

> This weekend I got a t-shirt (but not a tan) from the Miami J'yce 
> conference that just took place.  It's a great black T with white 
> lettering.  On the front is the name of the conference and the sigla from 
> Finnegans Wake (I'd tell you what that is, but under the new 
> communications bill I might get prosecuted).  On the back is a sort of 
> conundrum; it says, "Ten years of proudly exposing new Joycean 
> knowledge."  Here's my question: this construction strikes me as very 
> similar to the split infinitive.  If we can't "boldly go," can we 
> "proudly expose?"  Given the amount of sunbathing that takes place at 
> this conference, I have to conclude that new Joycean knowledge is not all 
> that's exposed.  I should have gone.  
> 
> Paula Gillespie
> Marquette University
>