Re: The magic of conlang (was: Has anyone made a real conlang?)
From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, April 23, 2003, 15:00 |
Christophe Grandsire scripsit:
> Hehe, I've never been a hard-core techie. Actually, my interest to science
> has always been of artistic inclination, which may explain why I
> specialised in a field where the natural phenomena studied are so often
> truly beautiful :) .
IMO all natural phenomena are truly beautiful:
There are no ugly natural objects, nor animals, plants, stones
or waters, and even less are there ugly stars in the sky. We
have been taught to call ugly ("ugly beast") certain animals
considered harmful, but their natural ugliness ends there.
--Primo Levi, "The Fear of Spiders" in _Other People's Trades_
--
John Cowan www.ccil.org/~cowan www.reutershealth.com jcowan@reutershealth.com
All "isms" should be "wasms". --Abbie
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