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Re: something i found interesting...

From:DOUGLAS KOLLER <laokou@...>
Date:Sunday, September 3, 2000, 0:19
From: "Yoon Ha Lee"

> Hmm. Can we know something we can't put into words? I know I've had the > *sensation* of knowing something that then took me several minutes, or > even several hours to articulate in words.
I should think religions and philosophies work heavily on the premise that language has just these sorts of limits. One you start talking about it, you've blown it. You just *know* [the term "know" obviously gets mercurial here]. When communicating with other people, though, you can't just sit and *know* at one another [though intuitiveness and silence are very cool]; you have to use oblique forms of verbal communcation like metaphor or poetry, or resort to non-verbal forms like art, music, or dance. Kou