Selected Aphorisms #21
Posted: February 17, 2009 Filed under: Aphorisms | Tags: aphorism, domestic incidents, pedagogy 3 Comments »The twenty-first installment in our mostly erudite new series.
I say to my writing students all the time “Show don’t tell! Show don’t tell!” and they thank me for the advice. But when I come home and say the same thing to my ladyfriend, she smacks me one across the face. Now I’m not what you’d call an authority on behavioral science, but what I do know is this: if what I’ve just described had happened to Pavlov’s dog instead of the thing with the bell and the treat, what we now refer to as “classical conditioning” might never have existed.
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McSweeney
Carson Cistulli
Dan Woytek
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Dan Lurie
That’s hilarious and quite true. Sorry you haven’t been getting “shown” much lately.
less aphorisms more trade rumor. or trade rumor as aphorism.
Reminds me of the old pastime, “If you show me yours….” I believe that George Michael was arrested for partaking in this. Comparative Anatomy has a extended, grotesque, sometimes curvy history. Ask anyone named Long Reuben who 1. went to high school and 2. visited a locker room at said high school.