Re: THEORY: Browsing at Borders Public Library
From: | Charles <catty@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, October 13, 1999, 22:33 |
> >in which some culture or group spent all its time
> >constructing "meta-languages" to Sapir-Whorf (indirectly control)
> >the thoughts of (other?) civilization(s) somehow dependent on them?
I need to read "Languages of Pao" in its entirety
(having read excerpts like "Moon Moth" in various collections)
and "Babel-17 (Delaney is maybe my favorite sci-fi author
just based on his short stories; I read lots of shorts).
But the corner-chain-bookstore-abomination didn't have either.
I settled for some Stanislaw Lem, irrelevantly. Next, the library.