On 6/25/08, Doyle Saylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > could we say something now that was > unavailable to the nineteenth century?
No. people have an incredible capacity for smuggling old, discredited preconceptions back in where the more intellectually difficult, scientific theories leave them feeling vulnerable. The allegedly new is more often than not the reprise of the tried and tired. Even if we could say something genuinely new, nobody would comprehend because it doesn't fit into the conventional frames. It would be far, far better to say something old and show how it already surpasses, in its freshness and currency that which now purports to be new. -- Sandwichman _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
