A Black Detective in the White House: The Residence
Courtesy of Eagle Eye Drama and Huge Designs (UK) [Spoiler alert: Netflix’s The Residence is, in one respect, a mystery about a murderer. Toward the end of this post, the murderer is revealed.] For Bob Grunst, the only twitcher I know “Unpredictable recurrence is not a sign of language’s ambiguity but is a fact: of language, as such, that there are words.”– Stanley Cavell, “Macbeth Appalled” “Words can be like tiny doses of arsenic: they are swallowed unnoticed, appear to have no effect, and then after a little time the toxic reaction sets in after all.”– Victor Klemperer, The Language of the Third Reich “Would you show me this house? One doesn’t often get the chance.”– Dr. Jacquith to Miss Vale in Now, Voyager Much as Icarus owes his reputation to imitating a bird, so the ordinary language philosopher J. L. Austin could attribute his ascent to fame to a goldfinch. The goldfinch appears in Austin’s “most Wittgensteinian piece of writing in terms of method and literary format,” according to Austin’s biographer M. W. Rowe. …
