Re: The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

--- Sylvia Sotomayor <kelen@...> wrote:

>
> No, remove and un-make are two different things, but
> I think un-make is the
> better word to use here. After all, you're not
> whisking away the mounting to
> another location, nor are you making it invisible,
> you are removing bits and
> pieces of it until it is gone. Hence, un-make.
I would propose a different analysis :

- the *goal* is: to remove the moutain. That means:
the moutain is standing right in front of you, and
what you want is that it will no more. What will
become out of it isn't expressed here in detail (but
usually, when you remove something from place A, then
it will be found in place B later; all my experience
of removing moutains tells me so).

- the *method* is: unmaking it, stone by stone, or
with a bulldozer, or dissolving it with vinegar, just
any way you can think of.

> ñi jánne la jaréta jalí óraen to jaráka án;
> make/become beginning be journey li 4096 from step
> 1.
>
> One step makes the beginning of a journey of 10,000
> li.
>
Et:
Petit à petit, l'oiseau fait son nid.
Les petits ruisseaux font les grandes rivières.



=====
Philippe Caquant

"High thoughts must have high language." (Aristophanes, Frogs)


		
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