Cheerskep
> Here's a fact about "thought": it is not
> stable; in a respectable mind, it starts as something weightless and, as the
> thinker reflects, the thought is tested and advanced, it takes on density,
> heft, and richness.
You mean, thoughts begin as no thing ("weightless") and grow in mass
("density," "heft") and actual value? Whoa. Didn't know that.
> All words are preceded by a thought; the mind then
> searches for the words to express that thought. But that first thought is
not
> "viscous" at all; indeed it's more slippery-fast than the words it fetches
up.
> But Adams does not recognize the usual growth of thought. This is because he
> rushes that first watery thought into ink, figures that's that, and gambols
> on to his next bubble-thought.
The mind looks around ("searches") for things that it can use ("words" to
"express that thought") and when it finds some, it retrieves them ("fetches
[them] up")? And on top of it all, the thoughts are fluid ("watery")?
My goodness, I think your notions are -- um, what's that word? Where did I put
it? Oh, yes, there it is -- metaphorical.
<g>
Michael Brady
