Beauvoir & V. in a C/c atholic Man's World

[alice wellintown]

Not always. Of course, this is a job that will require a little help
from Humpty Dumpty, for sometimes the word or words or linguistic
descriptions come before the thing, idea, event...described. Maybe
"always" is not what you meant at all. Maybe I'm taking all this too
literal wee? Forget who is to be master of langauge or who is to be
master for that mad hatter, be it language itself or the ne who
masters it, on philosophical waters we could challange Heraclitus's
claim, and yours, for they are one in the same,  that "one can never
step in the same river twice."
Of course, down the river we will find Henry Adams standing on the
dark shores contemplating what Heraclitus called "logos."  The basic
theme of Pynchon's V. is there; it is a matter not of language or how
words follow changes, but of multiplicity and unity.


 Page <page at quesnelbc.com> wrote:
> Ian Livingston wrote (in part):
>
> Yeah, I think change always outpaces linguistic descriptions of it.
> We're always trying to talk about what happened... people can never talk
> about the
> present. It is, quite literally, ineffable.
> ____________
>
> William James's specious present.
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> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 7:36 AM, alice wellintown
> <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Agreed. Language will eventually catch up with the changes of the last
>>> couple centuries. Or not.
>>
>> this seems to suggest that the last couple of centuries of change are
>> something language either needs to chase after or is something
>> language can not catch. or is it a catch 22? the second sex, like the
>> education, like the white goddess, like the golden bough...quests that
>> cast a huge net, are confessions of lost faith. one suspects that this
>> has something to do with stencil.
>>
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