Re: a 12th century conlang
| From: | Irina Rempt <ira@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, March 25, 1999, 9:29 |
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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
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