The "speech" in question would be more "communication" rather than narrowly
defined as speech as such using words. "If looks could kill..." After
Peter's denial Jesus turned and looked at him (only in Luke) after which
Peter went out and wept bitterly. Spouses communicate with looks, touches,
etc. One of the well-springs of poetry is, ironically, the poet's inability
to communicate the ineffable. Assuming that communication takes place in
heaven, what "language" is used? I can imagine the earthly paradise as
language-less, especially as free of irregular verbs.
Kwildchild
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill East" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2000 10:34 AM
Subject: Re: God and vernacular
>
> --- Kwildgen <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Somewhere, sometime I
> got the idea that prelapsarian folks had no
> > need for language, that communication took place in a sort of
> > speechless continuum of thought transference similar to what
> > supposedly goes on in heaven.
>
> God speaks to Adam and Eve; The sepent speaks to Eve, and she replies
> to him, before the fall. Or was it a telepathic serpent?
>
> Oriens. :-)
>
>
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