Hi am I the only one who cannot understand a word of this
or am I just missing some joke?
still I might get a poem out of it --------------
perhaps I do live on another planet
cheers patrick------ps has anyone actually written any poems lately?
at least we are not writing in French which is rather a closed book to me!
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From: Henry <[log in to unmask]>
To: Wil <[log in to unmask]>; <[log in to unmask]>;
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Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 9:51 PM
Subject: Re: a new issue
> Good points, Wil. All well taken & received. Bad-mouthing is mere
> piracy. Still... still... I thought certain general, very general
> directions in the thought of D, H & L-Ps could be encapsulated. I tried
> to do that with the statements about personifying or near-personification
> of language as a sort of unaccountable pivot-principle, with an ontology
> or center of gravity which could be pondered & characterized in a realm
> of philosophical abstraction (say, "theory"), as though language were
> a sort of mysterious entity - a framing reality - beyond the shaping
> power & volition of human beings. So that reality is determined by
> this "language" in a way that substitutes it for both human &/or divine
> action.
>
> thus & so my understanding, & the origin of my criticism of same.
>
> Henry
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