This has nothing to do with the topic, Doug (as in Barbour) but this might
amuse you: a friend of mine shares his not uncommon name with, as I
understand, the Premier of Ontario. It's Mike Harris. Somehow his identity
has become confused with said Premier in the cyberworld with the result that
he besieged by e-mails about such matters as the parlous state of the
Canadian education system.
His home page, http://www.mikeharris.co.uk/, bears a plaintive subscript to
the effect that he is not Ontario's First Minister.
Best
Dave
David Bircumshaw
Leicester, England
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas Barbour" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 12:24 AM
Subject: Re: authorships (2)
<<We can think and feel _outside_ language, in
>other words.>>
Perhaps, but as far as I can tell the only way we 'know' that is through
language, through articulating such things to ourselves, or to others. This
is a huge conundrumatic 'thang' & I don't pretend to understand all the
conceptualizations around it, but I do 'feel' that much of my response to
the world needs language for me to 'know' it.
Doug
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
(h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
Shakespeare
Drag yr mouldy old bones
Up these stairs & tell me
What you died of,
I think
I've got it
Too.
Sharon Thesen
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