The message in the bottle
how queer man is, how queer language is, and what one has to do with the other
by Walker Percy
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Walker Percy, a Catholic, a physician, a man bent to philosophy, became interested in semiotics, the field which studies the meaning of language when he involved himself in teaching his congenitally deaf daughter to speak. In the process he discovered that to understand man (or man the wayfarer as he called us) one should start with understanding language, that singularly unique attribute of man. This book is about what he discovered along the way and is totally fascinating. The reader will learn little about the highly technical field of semiotics, but will see human nature clearly. It is worth the read.
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The message in the bottle: how queer man is, how queer language is, and what one has to do with the other
2000, Picador USA, Distributed by St. Martin's Press
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0312254016 9780312254018
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The message in the bottle: how queer man is, how queer language is, and what one has to do with the other
1975, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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0374208565 9780374208561
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