In a message dated 06/19/2003 5:02:30 AM Central Daylight Time,
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<< . I should maybe add, just to be clear, that I would never expect to find
one with these things with an idea attached to it in the real world ;-) >>
This sentence made no sense to me, Mike.  Please explain.  We think in terms of
pictures, don't we?  I wonder how Helen Keller did what she did.  I suppose
once she could communicate that what others told her formed a mental picture,
and of course she had smell and touch also.  As to things having ideas attached
in the real world, they really do.  For instance, an oak table may conjure an
oak tree which conjures long life and endurance, etc., and even more so do
personal objects.  Everything I have in my home brings to mind someone or
something, and that is why it is hard for me to have a yard sale or dispose of
"things."  Even the house itself has its marks that make memories.  The dent in the
hall door brings to mind when Kathy threw a hairbrush at Leslie, her sister.
Had Leslie not closed the door in time, she would have had a far worse dent!
There are scratches on the bathroom door.  Sometimes I had to put my little
dog in there while I was going to be gone a few hours.  He was bad to tear up
things otherwise.  He hated it and scratched that door to splinters nearly.  He
has been dead a number of years, and the list goes on.  Well, I have nearly
forgotten the original subject, except I did not understand that one statement
of yours.  Sue