Re: What is it we are saying in our languages?

Okay, and here it finally showed up in my inbox, twelve hours later.  I'll
repeat my request of old: can anyone direct me to "Kou"?  My reasons now
beiing more obvious?

John Q:
>> Conlangers simply realize that language itself can be used
>> as an artistic medium, i.e., a way of recreating the world in a
>> personally
>> idealized subjective fashion where the nature of the creation itself
>> offers
>> its own aesthetic and intellectual pleasure to enjoyed and subjective
>> mysteries to be analyzed and dwelt upon.
> I so regret not being able to find Douglas Koller, or "Kou," who dwelt in
> Japan, who has slipped out of sight, for whom no webpages or new email can
> be found, and who wrote the most incandescently joyful response to one of
> my Lunatic surveys in which I asked about the sensuality of writing in an
> invented language.  He said, in so many words, that he was like a
> delighted monk, surrounded by his slips of paper, his coining of new
> words, his script, the use of the pen, and that it was "like living in
> one's own rococo painting 24 hours a day."
Sally