Dear Don,
Yes, the Frost poem is a wonderful indirect ramble. Ken rightly points out that Frost was never much of a farmer but he sure knew a good story when one came his way.
I have introduced the term "indirection" here as a posible extension of our understandings of what list conversations might be about.
The concept of indirection is famously introduced by Shakespeare in Hamlet where Polonius says: "By indirections find directions out". That is, to gather up enough knowledge to understand what is going on in a discourse, we might have to proceed indirectly rather than simply demanding a straight answer to a straight question.
This process might be less than ideal and it may even irritate. Why do I have to read the instructions first; why do I have to understand that I can't bang two bits of equally hard steel together without risking my eye?
Frost is a master of indirection.
There are many US writers and thinkers that are very useful to designers that often get overlooked. Many designers might have heard about CS Peirce because of abduction but generally they haven't read him at length or the other great pragmatists such as Dewey, or the James brothers.
And then there are the transcendentalist such as Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. People might be interested in Thoreau's work on pencil design: http://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/thoreau-pencil-wrote-paid-walden/
And there there is . . . and then there is . . .
Too little attention is paid to the the whole culture of the US in connection with modern design. We have forgotten the wonder that was America in our rush to buy rounded rectangles.
cheers
keith
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