Hi Jorge,
> SA previously wrote(Feb. 8)quoting Cambell:
> "For the Greek view of the world, as Spengler
> well showed in his discussions of the 'Apollonian
> soul' in 'The Decline of the West', placed all its
> emphasis on visible, tangible bodies. The Greek
> tongue possessed no word for space."
>
> SA previously continues: Now that's something!
"no word
> for space".
>
> [Campbell continues in the next sentence]
> "The far away and the invisible were ipso facto
> 'not there'.
> ++++++
> Jorge: that's interesting. According to Anne
> Cauquelin's "L'Invention du paysage" the Greeks did
> not have a word for landscape either. Not just the
> word was missing but the idea of landscape was
> absent. Makes sense in the light of Campbell's
observation
> that "The far away was 'not there'".
SA: How does landscape fit in with "The far away was
'not there'."? Is this said in the context that
landscape is continuous? I don't know.
SA
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