[lit-ideas] Re: (no subject)
- From: karltrogge@xxxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 21:19:15 +0200
On 7-Jul-09, at 8:00 PM, Ursula Stange wrote:
Reminds me of Patty Duke in that Helen Keller story...her
breakthrough came because of her grasp (can you grasp water?) that
water and the word water were the same. Well, not exactly, but
something about this reminded me.
Ursula
sitting between the falling water outside her window and the word
water on her screen...
Or that at least there was some sort of significant interplay between
'water' (not the English word but the ASL word) and the phenomena
experienced when her heand was held under a running spout.
palma wrote:
this is purely a remark. some people apparently are strangely
obsessed by a word fetish, i.e. a question about water turns out to
be a question about the English word "water". The whole thing is
funny since water is not composed by letters, and "water" is not
made of hydrogen, etc. ....
Isn't this where we should be turning to the PHILOSOPHICAL
INVESTIGATIONS now?
Karl Trogge
Hamburg
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