A Good Show. It would be pertinent to elaborate on what HPG or Witters for that matter, mean by 'show'. The implicature in Witters's 'key tenet' (as supplied by D. McEvoy) is that showing is, regardless of whether I have properly understood McEvoy's intentions in supplying it), somewhat _poorer_ than 'saying'. We may need an elaboration on the semantics of 'show' -- or more, the semantics of _show_: the phenomenon of showing. What semantics does it carry? Why is it that some item that cannot be said can however be successfully shown? What is the HISTORY behind Witters's 'key tenet'. Some relate it to Budda and the ineffable, but I wouldn't know. I'm not so much interested in Witters's view on the limitations of language, but rather in his epiphany, if that's the word, of 'show'. Etc. Cheers, Speranza ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html