We all love writing and do it with a frenzy, so does
it matter?
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> >*&%$!? Messier ?!#@
>
> I sometimes think words are kind of like burrs,
> attaching to themselves
> all sorts of fluff and random fur and other burrs
> according to their
> usage and context - and then they get carried off to
> another place, and
> bury themselves into the ground, and grow into - a
> pheonix! a spire! a
> pair of boots!
>
> or maybe another burr bush...
>
> So they never quite say what you mean them to say.
> If you're lucky, you
> might get similar colours of fluff to adhere to them
> in different
> contexts.
>
> Whereas mathemeticians can clean a number of all
> fluff and fur, and
> assign it an arbitrary value which can then be
> transformed through
> logical permutations, but predicated always on its
> precise initial value.
> Though I guess there are areas (like fuzzy logic)
> where this dance is
> not so aesthetically pure... yes? The complex
> sciences suggest different
> possibilities, but they're investigations of organic
> realities. I'm not
> nearly competent enough to judge, but I would think
> that even there the
> same basic mathematical laws pertain.
>
> Best
>
> Alison
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