Fellow fugitive
Forgive yourself
And me thereby
Thus we can live
Whatever’s left
Of time for us,
Each day a gift
We take on trust
Menashe, Samuel (2009). "Tempus fugit". Poetry. 194 (5): 404. JSTOR25706659. – via JSTOR (subscription required)
A 'garden path sentence' is a construction which traps the reader/hearer in a processing fault from which it is hard or even impossible to recover.
Consider the small example of the utterance 'Can you pass the salt?' immediately construed by the vast majority of native speakers as a request for performance of a specific action rather than as a question about the hearer's physical abilities; but this is so because in the very hearing of the utterance we assume the mealtime setting populated by agents concerned with eating and drinking... If one varies the setting and reconceives it as a conversation between a doctor and a patient recovering from surgery, the utterance 'Can you pass the salt' could indeed be heard as a question about the hearer's physical ability... Independently of some such already assumed context (and there could be many more than two), the utterance wouldn't have any meaning at all and wouldn't be an utterance, but merely a succession of noises or marks... In the example of 'Can you pass the salt?' it is always possible that someone at a dinner table may hear the question as one about his abilities, or that a patient may hear his doctor asking him to pass the salt (perhaps as a preliminary to an experiment).
Jahn, Manfred (2004). "Foundational Issues in Teaching Cognitive Narratology". European Journal of English Studies. 8 (1): 105–127. doi:10.1080/13825570408559490. – via Taylor & Francis (subscription required)
Lascia la spina
cogli la rosa
tu vai cercando
il tuo dolor
Canuta brina
per mano ascosa
giungerà quando
non crede il cor
Bayerische StaatsBibliothek (2008-02-15). "Il trionfo del tempo e della verità". Münchener Digitalsierungszentrum - Digitale Sammlungen: 76–77. urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb00016762-8.
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