Derek -- if you're going to allow that: "There are no visual or musical thoughts without an embodiment of same - if only a mental embodiment."
--- why not allow some kind of "mental embodiment" for writers? Has the world really been overrun with "millions of these Dostoyevskys, Prousts, or Shakespeares manques walking the streets." I've yet to meet a single person who claimed credit for literary achievements they've never yet written. Maybe they're all in Australia. BTW -- wordless thinking is the basic topic of interest on the Polanyi listserv -- usually on how to teach skills that cannot be explained with words. Think of all those things you know how to do -- but just can't explain. The idea of a great painter who has never painted anything is even more obviously silly than a great novelist, playwright etc who has never written anything. Ditto for a great composer who has never composed anything. Getting back to my original point, I repeat: there are no wordless thoughts. _____________________________________________________________ Click for online loan, fast & no lender fee, approval today http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2211/fc/Ioyw6ijmOSae4oyxLwwCpZycdYnhfy gXMwf8dUzZxM2hNZVvCXWl16/?count=1234567890
