=cw4t7abs wrote:
> antiorp uses a lovely, subtle technique
About as subtle as a fart.
> This act is more fundamental than understanding
Granted, there is no understanding without seeing.
> and is the real source of
> meaning, rather than the bland and banal superficialities of discourse.
Which is the natural form of glass, clear plate glass or Coke-bottle
glass?
> The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction (William
> Blake).
Folly is the cloke [cloak] of knavery.
> it is an affront to life form ability to comprehend. understand. process.
> it glorifies simplistic. violent measures which impede progress.
>
> it is equivalent with detonating a bomb on those with whom we disagree.
Rubbish. Not listening to someone is not to be compared to murder.
"It was bad for the Germans [here comes Godwin's Law] to send
Albert Einstein packing, but it was infinitely worse for them to
murder little Benno Cohn from around the corner, though he was
no genius."
-- Hannah Arendt (quoted from memory)
> do we feel so overwhelmed by the sensory information impinging upon our brains
> that we find it necessary to relegate these decisions to a "a/b" program
> which does not posses even the hundred thousandth mental capacity of a
> house fly +?
You betcha. Do *you* read all spams, or all physical junk mail?
Do you buy all advertised products in the spirit of private
consumer's research?
Meditate on 1) Trakl 2) Celine 3) Primo Levi.
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn.
You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn.
Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)