[lit-ideas] Re: New Program in Psychoanalysis and Culture

Quoting John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>:

> On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 12:48 AM, <wokshevs@xxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > I respectfully submit that first, it is not possible to "waft" between two
> > notions, statements, women, religions, traffic lanes, etc.. To waft is not
> > to
> > waver.
> 
> 
> To waft is not to waver, but that does not rule out wafting between two
> propositions in any but a thoroughly regimented world locked in Weber's iron
> cage of rationality.
> 
> Wafting, floating, drifting, slithering from one proposition to another:
>  the usual term is "brainstorming", suspending critical censorship and
> releasing the mind to follow associations where it will. Often to
> foolishness but sometimes to genuine insight.
> 
> John

I rest my case, your honour.

Walter O.
Wafting District Attorney
Supremist Court
St. John's, NL



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