Humpty Dumpty

Terrance lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Fri Jun 6 09:59:33 CDT 2003



Otto wrote:
> 
> No, the world is not a text. The world is chaotic energy in different forms.
> But you and I can only speak about the world in the form of some text, ie
> some kind of representation.

And when my apprentice is sitting on his ass with his thumb in his mouth
and I'm up on a ladder, a mouth full of nails, and I kick a rung so as
to cause the mud to be loosened from the soles of my boots onto his
daydreaming skull is that chaotic energy in  different form (the world)
or my speaking about the world in which I want my apprentice to get off
his ass and get me another piece of lumber?



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