RE: ' "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?"
I do. I think it is just as indispensable. Wasn't thta clear? Re: '> 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.' The world has not been overrun by them precisely for the reason I gave. It is an illusion. And it's not a question of claiming credit for achievements they have never written. Only a fraud would do that. It's a question of believing that "I have the great American/Australian/Canadian novel in me just poised to get out. If only I could find the right words .." That is not how it happens - except in Hollywood movies. DA On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 4:57 AM, Chris Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > -- Derek Allan http://www.home.netspeed.com.au/derek.allan/default.htm
