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

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 1:19 PM,  <wokshevs@xxxxxx> wrote:
> The smell of bacon in the morning may waft languidly through the house. At 
> least
> my bacon does. This does not imply the image of "floating here and there" in 
> the
> sense that 2 views or propositions are individuated as discrete items and we 
> end
> up moving back and forth repeatedly between them. That is precisely what it
> means to "waver between ..." The scent of bacon "wafts" throughout the house,
> in a wide variety of directions. It lingers not simply "here and there" but
> here and there and everywhere.
>
> (In truth, this is the kind of concept that only Russians are able to
> comprehensively understand: evanescent and fleeting, yet identifiable and
> communicable.)
>
Now this is of course a combination of diffusion and convection and
perhaps the fan in your house and, in my opinion, IS the essence of
wafting.

p
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