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Re: a 12th century conlang

From:Irina Rempt <ira@...>
Date:Thursday, March 25, 1999, 9:29
On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Laurie Gerholz wrote:

> AAIIIEEEEE! One might as well say that anyone who has ever painted a > landscape is somehow damaging the land. Or what is a choreographer doing > to the human body by borrowing and rearranging elements of human > movement?
There are people who say exactly that. I wish I could find it, but I once read an article condemning all representative art because it was an insult to the subject: it could never be quite as good as God's work. On the other hand, Tolkien (there he is again; I like his non-fiction better than his fiction, though) argued very sensibly that God created Man *in His image* so that Man could also create on a smaller scale.
> What was this guy smoking, anyway?
_Brus_, I expect, not _faranre_ :-) Irina ira@rempt.xs4all.nl (mailing list address) irina@rempt.xs4all.nl (myself) http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt/irina/frontpage.html (English) http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt/irina/backpage.html (Nederlands)