Re: The Limits of Language
TopazOwl

Wed Dec 23 00:00:01 1998
Beirdd wrote,*br*: Although it's probably long obvious to most of you who post *br*: to this board, it just occured to me that the Druidic *br*: prohibition against writing may not have been so much for *br*: protecting secrets amd knowledge as it was an *br*: acknowledgement that language can never do justice to the *br*: mystical and that such attempts easily confuse the *br*: uninitiated, let alone those whose role it is to understand *br*: and to teach.*p*     I always thought it was for both reasons: protecting the knowledge that would be misunderstood and potentially misused by the uninitiated *because* language can never do justice to the mystical. Still, we seem to have this need to try, don't we? :-)*p*Leigh
The Limits of Language
Beirdd
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Tue Dec 22 22:10:57 1998