GRGR(16) non-verbal spaces

Peter Petto ppetto at apk.net
Fri Dec 17 10:31:41 CST 1999


rj wrote:

>Galina's dream (340-341) succinctly symbolises the whole cultural
>carpetbagging theme I think. She has noticed too that it is the
>non-verbal spaces of tribal communication in which resistance to the
>program of linguistic imperialism is being wrought (like Dzaqyp Qulan's
>silences also, which speak worlds to Tchitcherine, and like the lesson
>of the ajyts later, and like that cheesy pidgin of Tchitchy's mom and
>dad).

The importance of silence brings to mind Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus 
Logico-philosophicus, where after explaining what can be said goes on to 
say that the important stuff is the unsayable remainder.

I remember the explicit reference to LW in V, Kurt Mondaugen's decoded 
sferic. Are there other clear references of this sort in GR?




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