Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

Re: or Poincaré, Henri

Author:sabadash
Posted:6/12/2000; 8:26:17 AM
Topic:How do you know a vision when it hits you?
Msg #:17746 (In response to 17741)
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Nice poin'.

He did pretty well. And that was the period for doing that kind of thing. I think however, the war-to-end-all intruded pretty much on that particular spin of the 'revision thing' - and relativity made that simple fall of finding something seem - I don't know - a little slower that light.

If you were to look at the 'drug thing' from that particular perspective, it would seem inevitable. But it always is, I guess.

The naturalists of the period and just after . . . who's the 'lives of the cell' guy? . . . jumped up on this.

And you could look at 'Leaves of Grass' which really was a sock in the eye, as an early foray. Kierkegard, I'm thinking. But that brings us back to Plato.

That old cave, those old chains, those old shadows . . .

And then coming back to nothing. It's a great story, I love it.




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