A passage in Walden reminding me that birds don’t have “backwards knees”: rather, what we think are their knees are in fact their ankles…. (What did the Archaic English word ‘yclept’ mean again?) (It meant “Named, called.” “He was yclept Paul,” for example). Photography was a technology and so was writing, but didn’t linguistic thinking precede imagistic thinking? Wasn’t Thought essentially verbal?
Making preparations for a guest. Wheel chair and other medical apparatus *outta here* (the guest needs lively invigorating sights and entertainments, not wheel chairs, pill bottles, bandages, gait belts, blood pressure monitors, elaborate harnesses for arms and chests, “grabbers”… or maybe I can wheel my guest around in the chair, if things get sufficiently lively, maybe I can achieve a meaningful type of holding with these “grabbers”…?) A new cutting board because food borne pathogens may be alright for the attendant (though he’s not actually all that crazy about them) but they are not alright for his guests!
Thought is essentially verbal not visual or aural, I tell you, I don’t know why. There is a reason that scientific papers aren’t written in music. (And there is a reason, too, that often they contain a lot of math, I admit.)
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