[Leica] Time Photos of the Year

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

I chose 'oxymoron' quite deliberately, because no story is ever 
whole. Just like 'the whole truth' never is; these things are 
intrinsic impossibilities. Persons in certain positions, particularly 
politics but also others with an agenda that they want to convince 
others of, will try to convince people that there is such a thing as 
'the whole truth' or 'the whole story', but there isn't.



At 5:44 PM -0500 12/12/10, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>The term oxymoron is commonly incorrectly used as two words which are the
>opposite of each other. They must be more than that. They must be a paradox.
>
>"A paradox reduced to two words, usually in an adjective-noun ("eloquent
>silence") or adverb-adjective ("inertly strong") relationship, and is used
>for effect, to emphasize contrasts, incongruities, hypocrisy, or simply the
>complex nature of reality. Examples: wise fool, ignorantly learned, laughing
>sadness, pious hate. Some others: I do here make humbly bold to present them
>with a short account of themselves and their art. . . . --Jonathan Swift *
>The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his
>head. . . . --Alexander Pope * He was now sufficiently composed to order a
>funeral of modest magnificence, suitable at once to the rank of a Nouradin's
>profession, and the reputation of his wealth. --Samuel Johnson Oxymoron can
>be useful when things have gone contrary to expectation, belief, desire, or
>assertion, or when your position is opposite to another's which you are
>discussing. The figure then produces an ironic contrast which shows, in your
>view, how something has been misunderstood or mislabeled: Senator Rosebud
>calls this a useless plan; if so, it is the most helpful useless plan we
>have ever enacted. * The cost-saving program became an expensive economy.
>Other oxymorons, as more or less true paradoxes, show the complexity of a
>situation where two apparently opposite things are true simultaneously,
>either literally ("desirable calamity") or imaginatively ("love precipitates
>delay"). Some examples other writers have used are these: scandalously nice,
>sublimely bad, darkness visible, cheerful pessimist, sad joy, wise fool,
>tender cruelty, despairing hope, freezing fire. An oxymoron should
>preferably be yours uniquely; do not use another's unless it is relatively
>obvious formulation (like "expensive economy") which anyone might think of.
>Also, the device is most effective when the terms are not common opposites.
>So, instead of "a low high point," you might try "depressed apex" or
>something."
>
>>From a glossary of literary terms.
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>>  From: "Henning J. Wulff" <henningw at archiphoto.com>
>>  Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>  Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2010 12:43:14 -0800
>>  To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>  Subject: Re: [Leica] Time Photos of the Year
>>
>>  The 'whole story' is an oxymoron.
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