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**meteeratymn** · 06-24-2009, 07:11 AM

Hey Tony,I'm off would have been perfect,though it sujest a return.

Interesting point, Thomas, and it serves me right for talking about a book I've not actually read. But just arguing about the expressions in themselves, can't both 'I'm off' and 'Je m'en vais' be definitive? Do the two expressions necessarily suggest a return? Aren't they just more emphatic ways of saying 'I'm going', which doesn't necessarilly suggest a return either?

The point about 'I'm gone' that I was trying to make is that, to me at least, it just seems heavily freighted with hippyisms or beatnik connotations, man, dig, and to me you can't escape this reading, no matter how far removed from this the book may be.

06-24-2009, 07:11 AM	#6
meteeratymn Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 503 Senior Member	Hey Tony,I'm off would have been perfect,though it sujest a return. Interesting point, Thomas, and it serves me right for talking about a book I've not actually read. But just arguing about the expressions in themselves, can't both 'I'm off' and 'Je m'en vais' be definitive? Do the two expressions necessarily suggest a return? Aren't they just more emphatic ways of saying 'I'm going', which doesn't necessarilly suggest a return either? The point about 'I'm gone' that I was trying to make is that, to me at least, it just seems heavily freighted with hippyisms or beatnik connotations, man, dig, and to me you can't escape this reading, no matter how far removed from this the book may be.
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