Re: art and language: was, lexicon

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Cowan" <cowan@...>

> Sally Caves scripsit:
>
> > Language is an art.  You can speak and write it with minimal or maximal
> > skill.
>
> This reminds me of the famous occasion on which a King of England toured
> a newly opened cathedral and denounced it, to the architect no less, as
> "awful, pompous, and artificial".
>
> But no, Charles II was in fact praising Christopher Wren's work on
> St. Paul's -- as "awe-inspiring, majestic, and ingeniously designed".
> (Note the "art" in "artificial".)
Well exactly, John!  Art from early on has always been considered something
contrary to nature.  But so, actually, is art in language.


Sally Caves
scaves@frontiernet.net
Eskkoat ol ai sendran, rohsan nuehra celyil takrem bomai nakuo.
"My shadow follows me, putting strange, new roses into the world."