Re: a few answers
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Sun, 08 Nov 1998 16:48:57 +1100
Exactly ... I think one of the most entrancing things about literary
discourse is that we all pretend that their will be an ultimate outcome; a
completely formed answer. That is why we place our faith in the author so
much: `he/she will tell us what it's all about' But the truth is, there is
no final truth, there is no real `answer' to find. The fun is in the
looking, the unturning of rocks, the discovery of other things on the way.
> So as human beings studying language, and only being able to study our
> own, we're limited. Very, terribly, fatally limited. What's even more
> limiting is the fact that our language is itself the only means by which
> we can think about language. It's like trying to study your own eye in a
> microscope--very distracting. And also very much like trying to pull
> yourself up by your bootstraps.
>
> But we still try.
Camille
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