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To: Neocon who wrote (53089)	8/25/1999 5:36:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Have you read much of Gauguin on DAR? I believe he is a brilliant writer, often coming up with descriptions and stories that leave me breathless. He admittedly can border on obscure at times, but other times he soars above us all and we just shake our heads in awe at way he cuts through to the marrow of things. If we could just tie him down and channel him....but he is not exactly tiedownable. Before I went to the store, I read your post and thought you were saying something different, though. More about how what we experience has to pass through our perceptions and we have no choice but to interpret them using our own reference points (chicken). I was just reading last night how a person from another place or time, say one where idols or totems were worshipped, might look at an American house with a pink flamingo and some garden gnomes in the front beds and think he was seeing a religious shrine. Does that mean that the knowledge we think we get from anthropologists is not necessarily accurate?

To: Neocon who wrote (53089)	8/25/1999 6:25:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

one of the biggest problems in writing is to figure out how to be lucid and to convey with some accuracy ideas and experiences which may be uncommon... The trick is to find ways of constructing models from the known that may resemble the "unknown", or to find a series of analogies, in the texture of which one may discern something of the reality.... The trick, IMLTHO (Less Than Humble Opinion), is to decide exactly what you want to say and say it. Artifice diminishes, unless you're better than any of us are.