Re: Splintered Light (was Re: Steg's wonderful .sig)

From: Ed Heil <edheil@...>

> I've only read _Saving the Appearances_, and I find it both very
> difficult and very interesting.  I want to accept Barfield's ideas, if
> only to try them on for size and see if they fit, but they ask so much
> of one -- they ask one to rip out all of the assumptions that have
> been instilled in us by the age we live in.  It requires one to muster
> a lot of faith and good will and imagination; perhaps more than I've
> got available.
Exactly!  Which is why it makes excellent material for you to explore in the
safety of a conculture.  As Suzette Haden Elgin often writes, science
fiction and fantasy enables us to create "thought experiments" where we can
explore other realities.

Do try _Poetic Diction_.  I myself haven't read _Saving the Appearances_,
but I just went to http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/081956205X/ and
added it to my Wish List, a great new feature of Amazon.  (Since my
friends/family always say, "We know you love books, but you have so many, we
could never buy you one!")

Best regards,

Jeffrey Henning
http://www.LangMaker.com/ - Invent Your Own Language
http://www.Jeffrey.Henning.com/ - Santa Paravia & Fiumaccio for Windows