[lit-ideas] Re: "The Cat Was On The Mat; And What He Did There."
- From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:49:21 -0400
>>the cat is on the mat.
As he notes:
"That's ambiguous. Surely it's the bones and the
skin that are on the
French suede mat. It's never as simple as that".
Indeed, and it's best to talk of _complex_. "The
cat is on the mat" is a
_complex_.
A "process" metaphysician -- a'la Alan Watts or
Father Teilhard -- might choose to see all nouns
as verbs. In the sense that the earth "peoples" or
apple trees "apple." Cats are really "catting"
... i.e., the universe producing a cat form. Even
mats might be an indirect expression of natural
forces.
The catting sat on the matting.
Similarly in "It's raining." Es regnet. What is
doing the raining? What is that "it"? There is
rain, not as noun but as verb.
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