----- Original Message -----
From: "J Y S Czhang" <czhang23@...>
> In a message dated 2003:06:03 10:39:12 AM, Andreas writes:
>
> >> >What are we meaning by "wilderness" here?
> >> Two highly divergent worldviews - grantedly. But both seem
interpretable
> >> as "defense against wilderness" in the sense I, initially at least,
assumed
> >> that Sally meant it; as defense the against dangerous, "hostile",
elements
> >>of the universe.
Sally:
> >Yes... inimical nature, deadly nature: snow, storm, wind, dense forest
> >filled with predators, drought, desert, stinging creatures, stinking
bogs,
> >swarming ants, the cold heath, creeping roots, snagging tree limbs,
entropy,
> >decay, maggots, spiderwebs in your face, GERMS, even weeds. Especially
> >weeds. :)
Czhang:
> ROTFLMAOSHIHLH!
> Mere nuisances... mere nuisances in the Big Picture. Like blips in the
> continuum...
ROTF etc. What he said! [I'm glad we understand each other, now! :)]
hilarious drugs as mosquito repellant anecdote snipped
Sally:
> >Don't get me wrong... I love the earth. But as a species, we've taken
> >measures to make our habitable spaces free of some of the creeping
intrusion
> >of Nature (there ought to be a Teonaht word for that). The example of
> >the Japanese garden with its reverence for natural design, the delight
taken
> >in artful asymmetry is a celebration of nature, but nature tamed,
> nonetheless.
> >The Teonaht asymmetrical houses do the same thing, but they are still
> >shelters that keep out the weeds.
>
> Civilisation is evil, but like all necessary evils indispensable once
> accustomed ;)
Civilization HAS its evils. Like a drug, though, I'm hooked on it.
> {Do not get me wrong, I like - er, loooooove a lil creative mischief,
mayhem
> and evil at times... *evil trickster grin*... people don't nickname me
> "Stripe" or "Stitch" or "Chino Loco" for nuthin' ya know...}
I've figured that out.
> "The most beautiful order is a heap of sweepings piled up at random."
> - Heraclitus, Greece, 5th Century BCE
Heraclitus would like my house.
> "There is no total revolution, there is only _perpetual_ Revolution,
> real life, like love, dazzling at every moment." - Paul Eluard
Being drunk on life.
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."
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