{"id":47105,"date":"2015-10-12T22:04:45","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T22:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=47105"},"modified":"2015-10-12T22:04:46","modified_gmt":"2015-10-12T22:04:46","slug":"whose-mind-hath-the-finer-blade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=47105","title":{"rendered":"Whose mind hath the finer blade?"},"content":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Cameron<\/strong> — robert frost, the poet, or yogi berra, the player? ]
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**<\/p>\n

Also of interest, Frost<\/strong>‘s comment, quoted on the Classic Poetry Pages<\/a>: <\/p>\n

One stanza of ‘The Road Not Taken’ was written while I was sitting on a sofa in the middle of England: Was found three or four years later, and I couldn’t bear not to finish it. I wasn’t thinking about myself there, but about a friend who had gone off to war, a person who, whichever road he went, would be sorry he didn’t go the other. He was hard on himself that way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As that page shows, I’m certainly not the first to note the overlap between Robert Frost<\/strong> and Yogi Berra<\/strong> — but it caught my attention today as I was reading a comment on Scott Aikin<\/strong> and Robert Talisse<\/strong>‘s On Some Yogisms<\/a>:<\/p>\n

And “When you come to a fork in the road, take it,” was his joking way of giving directions to his NJ home. You could get there by going either way once you reached the fork he was referring to; both roads led to his house eventually.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That gives a literal context to Berra’s flight of fancy — and yeah, some roads are looped, it’s true — but without the wit, there’s be no wisdom.<\/p>\n

**<\/p>\n

Witty Wittgenstein, as apparently quoted<\/a> by Ray Monk<\/strong> and in the Aikin and Talisse piece:<\/p>\n

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Cameron — robert frost, the poet, or yogi berra, the player? ] . ** Also of interest, Frost‘s comment, quoted on the Classic Poetry Pages: One stanza of ‘The Road Not Taken’ was written while I was sitting on a sofa in the middle of England: Was found three or four years […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,627,630,741,719,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-doublequotes","category-language","category-poetry","category-sports","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47105"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47117,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47105\/revisions\/47117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}