In the house of the head shaman...

[jporter]

> From: Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>


> Yes, of course, it's a National Best Seller and it reads
> like one, but it's not bad.
> Although he does use that metaphor, the thinking machine,
> that I so abhor.

 
 Pinker chimes in well after V. (& the rest of P's work), but not so Whorf,
and I think it is Whorf that (Stencil's) Hugh resembles, groping for
something beyond the surface and beneath the skin, something noumenous just
beyond his ken. Pinker would probably be content with the simple geographic
description of the south pole, no agents of Vheissu for him, except maybe to
mock those who would like to believe there is more.

Stencil at the bottom of his fold cannot determine "warp, woof or pattern
anywhere else" and the shape of the century eludes him, although it might be
determined "only by the surface accidents" at the time.

Hugh-Evan contrast with Sydney-Herbert but not enough for either pair to
escape the thrall of V. Likewise, Pinker, too, would love to pin down the
mystery, but he would move way beyond the Stencils' embrace of V., even to
the point of masquerading as a... Well, we shouldn't get ahead of ourselves.

jody