Hi Steve,
Patriarchy being what it is, maybe the problem is expecting your father
to accept your new found point-of-view.
Marsha
On Oct 9, 2011, at 5:44 PM, Steven Peterson wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Perhaps it was just an off-hand literary flourish that we ought not
> take too seriously, but what do you make of the notion of taking off
> the glasses ("God help him.") in the passage from Lila (ch 8) quoted
> below?...
>
> "The same is true of subjects and objects. The culture in which we live
> hands us a set of intellectual glasses to interpret experience with, and
> the concept of the primacy of subjects and objects is built right into
> these glasses. If someone sees things through a somewhat different set of
> glasses or, God help him, takes his glasses off, the natural tendency of
> those who still have their glasses on is to regard his statements as
> somewhat weird, if not actually crazy."
>
>
> Best,
> Steve
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