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From: Kenneth Van Oost <Kenneth.Van.Oost@village.uunet.be>
To: <Kennethvanoost@myrealbox.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 9:50 PM
Subject: Re: memetics-digest V1 #1011
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Wade T.Smith <wade_smith@harvard.edu>
> > On Sunday, April 7, 2002, at 04:33 , Jarmo Pystynen wrote:
> > > "Have you ever realized that in the perfect state of observation you,
> > > the observer, you the thinker, the center cease to exist?"
> >
> > And I wrote not three days ago, to another, a concerningly similar-
> >
> > "The true act of observation is done in silence- no thoughts impede- it
> > is a totally receptive state. And, within this state, what flows in the
> > mind, and what processes congeal and form to bring sense to this
> > silence, is the creative process, and, it works as well upon the field
> > of science (and as validly) as it does upon the field of art and poetry,
> > each with their own tools and experiences and cultures and technologies
> > and practitioners and traditions. But it is where one takes the fruits
> > of this silence that determines what is to be next- science or poetry.
> > Facts or feelings."
>
> Hi all,
>
> I say,
>
> In the beginning there was the word !
> No !! In the beginning there was the emotion !
>
> Words are just recent phenomenons, they replace the emotion, like the
> trot replaced the gallop, while the gallop is the natural way of the
horse.
> People learn it to trot. [ They] removed people from the emotional poetry
> by letting him reason, that is to say, by letting him chatter, isn 't it
!?
>
> Louis- Ferdinand Céline
>
> A lovely way to describe what ' memes ' actually do, don 't you think !?
>
> Regards,
>
> Kenneth
>
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