Derek, in the use of paint or clay, to achieve any abstract design, does one have to use words?. Does one have to think of words while whistling? Do dancers have to think of words while dancing? Or playing a flute?
mando On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 1:02 AM, Derek Allan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For some reason I didn't get Cheerskep'e email re the above, but I saw > it on the archives. > > He writes in part: 'Writers struggle to choose the best words -- how > could that be if their > thoughts are in words?' > > I think the answer is they struggle precisely because the thought only > emerges fully once they sense the best words have been found. Until > then, it is a kind of embryo of a thought. 'Crime and Punishment' is > in a sense just one thought - which needed all those words to fully > reveal itself. Dostoyevsky was not writing down a pre-thought > 'language-less' idea - like an amanuensis putting someone else's ideas > on paper. He was exploring - discovering - his thought, as he wrote. > Like all artists. I think we all do much the same in everyday life in > a less developed way. > > Wordless thoughts would be like 'a painter' who had never painted > anything. > > DA
