Hello everyone

On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Michael R. Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, Joe -
>
>> DQ is indefinable and still knowable.
>
> Vladimir Horowitz - who knew something about expression - once said in an
> interview, "Sound came before the word. Sound came *before* the word. So
> sound speaks by itself. It doesn't need any interpretation. It's like a
> painting - you look at the painting, and everyone sees something different
> ... That's why I don’t' read about music so much. You get lots of nice
> words, nicely written - but it didn't tell you anything!"
>
> Here's his way of saying the same thing:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1C3VfgmwbQ
>
> He used to demonstrate what he meant to visitors to his house by making all
> kinds of non-verbal sounds, and pointing out that people *understood* what
> he meant without verbal cognition. It's like dancing. That's why Lila
> dances. "The Tao nourishes all things."

Yes, but Michael... there are different ways of "knowing" without
verbal cognition. Body language is a prime example... as a watcher of
people I've learned to interpret what they're saying with their bodies
even while they say something completely different with their words.
Understanding that still requires interpretation though, just as the
people who understood what Horowitz meant by making non-verbal sounds.
Otherwise, it is just noise.

No?

Dan
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