Caly in our Alley
Jack Armstrong
Of course there will be a signing on Friday. Friday is, after all, a Good Day: the last day at work before the weekend, fish and chips night, Have I Got News For You is on, it's the one day of the week when any football match seems winnable, and so on and so forth. This poses an important problem, however. If Friday can be defined as a, no, the Good Day, then how could a signing occur on any day other than Friday? This conundrum can be solved, but only if we accept the inadequacy of our definitions. Perhaps Friday should not be used to denote a specific, fixed day of the week, but an idea, which is infinitely more subtle and nuanced than the normative and prescriptive assertion that Friday must fall on the fifth day of 'the week.'
The question we should be asking, therefore, is not whether there will be a signing on Friday, but what is the fundamental meaning of Friday itself? This is a challenging and imaginative approach, but it does offer a constructive and integrated framework within which the 'signings question' can be fruitfully discussed in the future.
The question we should be asking, therefore, is not whether there will be a signing on Friday, but what is the fundamental meaning of Friday itself? This is a challenging and imaginative approach, but it does offer a constructive and integrated framework within which the 'signings question' can be fruitfully discussed in the future.
