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Date: Sat, 8 Nov 1997 01:28:25 -0500
From: George Trail <gtrail-AT-UH.EDU>
Subject: Re: PLC: An entirely different subject



>
>I believe that Language has become a very special "virtual creature" which
>lives side by side with us, providing a reality which we often defend or
>oppose with our lives, since language is the carrier of beliefs, ideas,
>concepts and religions.  It is as if we built language and then used that
>structure to help us continue to build thought, or at least to extend thought
>further and further.
>
>'nuf said.  Comments?
>
>"In vino veritas"
>
>Regards,
>Saicho

And it became a tradition to refer to this way of thinking as
"Romanticism," and to divide its adherants into two basic groups, "high"
who held it as a blessing, and "simple," who held it as inescapable, even
unanswerable.
g




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