GRGR(29) - The Grid, The Comb

[jbor]

> As I said, here is where you make the jump to metaphysics....
> Souls in stones! Ha!

This is exactly the mentality of the whole Western metaphysical tradition:
my abstraction is *the* abstraction, so respect my authorit-a. The
Australian Aborigines certainly, and I suspect African and American
indigenous peoples too, get along quite well believing there to be a Soul in
ev'ry Stone, or something very much like it:

   " ... Felipe is kneeling out in the sun, making his noontime devotionals
   to the living presence of a certain rock back in the wasteland of La
   Rioja, on the eastern slopes of the Andes. ... Felipe has come to see, as
   those who are not Sentient Rocksters seldom do, that history as it's been
   laid on the world is only a fraction, an outward-and-visible fraction.
   That we must also look to the untold, to the silence around us, to the
   passage of the next rock we notice -- to its aeons of history under the
   long and female persistence of water and air (who'll be there, once or
   twice per century, to trip the shutter?), down to the lowland, where your
   paths, human and mineral, are most likely to cross. . . . " (612-3)

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>From: Mark Wright AIA <mwaia at yahoo.com>
>To: jbor <jbor at bigpond.com>
>Subject: Re: GRGR(29) - The Grid, The Comb
>Date: Wed, Jul 5, 2000, 12:03 AM
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