Re: The magic of conlang (was: Has anyone made a real conlang?)

On Tue, 22 Apr 2003 22:45:09 +0200, Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> wrote:

>how things work. Here, the circle is closed. Art, Science and Technology
>need each other to exist. The scientist who finds art unimportant is like
>the plant which cuts its own roots: they will dry up to an unproductive
>thing, incapable of bringing anything new.
Absolutely! :-))
My impression is that today many scientists no longer consider this true.
Moreover, there are scientists who no longer comply with this vital
principle of science, namely the close relation with the arts. In former
times, it was quite usual that mathematicians were also philosophers or
even musicians. Look at their successors whom we meet today and look at
their publications...

Up to the age of 16 I was a hard-core techie like Andrew Nowicki seems
to be. Then music stepped in my life, and still later languages did. It
started with writing poems and evolved steadily and consequently. There
is no substitute for creativity. At 16 it started and now, ten years
later, I see that it wasn't just a temporary mood - it was a big and
heavy switch that moved from "off" to "on". It was a change of life
style which I did neither forsee nor believe when I created my first
own piece of art (which was music in my case).

All the best, :-)
Harald

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