I am George Talarico, I am a first-year student at Bucknell University. I am the youngest of seven siblings, four brothers, and two sisters. I, like my brothers, am a division one lacrosse player. Two of my brothers are fellow Bucknelians; one is a graduate of the class of 2019 and the other is currently a senior.
In Chapter 1 of Abolition of Man, Lewis makes a comment on an interpretation Gaius and Titius have on the story, Coleridge at The Waterfall. In the story, Coleridge hears two men describing a waterfall. One man uses the word “sublime” to describe the waterfall and the other man uses the word “pretty”. Coleridge did not believe the word “pretty” was an adequate word to describe the waterfall. Gaius and Titius went on to state that they did not believe that “sublime was the proper way to describe waterfall because “sublime” is used to describe an emotion. Lewis believes that the word sublime was used to describe the way the waterfall made the man feel, as opposed to a description of the waterfall itself. Lewis made his argument against Gaius and Titius’ interpretation of the story because he believed that if he did not, the possibility of a student reading the passage in The Green Book and believing that sentences using predicates can only be used to describe emotion would be likely.