Subject: Re: Glass Yogis
From: Steven Gabriel (sgabriel@willamette.edu)
Date: Fri Apr 14 2000 - 13:52:05 EDT
> I should mention to Bruce that I am undeniably a _key_ man myself. I love
> those moments when a certain tension breaks and an understanding of some
> work suddenly bursts into view shining so brightly it eclipses all others
> and, for the moment at least, I know that this is the key. That this passes
> must be remembered, but the experiece still cherished. Perhaps you can
> compromise on that?
Keys? Insights? The first word seems so ... horribly doomed to
fail. The seconds seems pleasant, enlightening, like suns bursting
through the clouds and onto the paper of yon manuscript or what have
you. Aren't they just shades of the same thing thing though?
Don't we just sepnd a lot of time stretching insights into keys, and keys
into insights? Isn't that really the key/insight to this matter?
If you think thepoint I'm making right now is lousy, you'll say I'm trying
to find a key and aren't I silly to be trying to do that? If you agree,
you might say, "Gee, that was some good insight into the problem."
On the otherhand, if I think my insight is particularly grand, I might
imply that it's a key, lest I get dismissed as only another bloke with
another insight.
Why not take all your keys and let them first make the lesser claim of
being an insight. Fair enough, no? Then don't be afraid to at least let
the possibility of "keyness" creep in whenever the need arises. Or just
forget about keys, and make everything an insight. Please, however, do
not dismiss something simply because it claims to be a key. Take it down
a notch, give it a thought, and then decide what you think about it.
Oh, and I don't know the particulars of the key at hand too horribly in
this case. I only know that I notice a trend of early of dismissal of
ideas on this list, often due to something being too key'ish, or too
that'ish, or just because Scottie can make a very witty yet disparaging
comment against it before anyone has a chance to mull it over. *evil grin*
S.
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