[lit-ideas] Re: New Program in Psychoanalysis and Culture
- From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:50:33 -0700
John wrote
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.
I think it does, insofar as 'I wafted between...' 'She wafted
between...,' and so on are (what's a euphemism for 'ill-formed'?); for
one does not waft, Weber or no Webster: one is wafted, o'er the waves
most commonly, but by light airs and gentle breezes, too. She and I
might, that is, be wafted, but we do not waft ourselves.
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.
Well, I don't know. Floating, drifting, and slithering don't strike my
failing ear as synonyms, or even cousins. 'He slithered between a number
of vague possibilities,' is a bit reptilian, but maybe that's what
happens in old brain storming.
Robert Paul,
wondering where summer went
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