++> Inspired by Day Brown to Frank Masingill comments
 ++> on  "Clever flies"
 
 DB> You have hit on the nub of a thread between David and I
 DB> Frank. In noting the *use* which Aristotle put on myth
 DB> makes me aware that I too, am employing myth, or allegory,
 DB> or parable, to communicate a set of ideas which weave togather
 DB> a coherent of re-ALL-ity, as he put it.
 
  I am not anti-mythic and find them fine tools for search-
  I only "sometimes"  question the serious effort to give
  them more conclusive meaning than their primary focus of
  exploratory reach. To mountainize a ledge of belief, is a giant
  step away from an ongoing evolvement to what might be knowable.
  ...more the mental distinction between static and dynamic comfort.
 
 DB> Each of the threads can be disputed as to whether it supports the
 DB> weight I have given it, although I don't see any thread clearly
 DB> as broken by the strain.  but woven togather, they form a fabric
 DB> to lay it all out on.
 
     I am MOST appreciative of a fine tapestry than can best tell
     of knowing (a "humble" media of sharing) so long as the
     tapestry is not presented as THE'  "knowing" (ideopedia).
     I always feel some safer with an apology prefixed to brilliance,
     whether from God or NBC or PHIL.
 
 DB> I find it ironic that the extreem noetic discipline of quantum
 DB> physics now has their formulae not proved by rational analysis
 DB> anymore, but like Goethe, judged on the basis of aesthetics. It
 DB> looks to me like a parable here too. Is all truth allegorical?
 
     All that is, is science (or close to it) but we oft feel better
     if poetry can play it as a waltz ..........something nice about
     enchantment. "Truth" is primarily allegorical in direct relation
     to our not knowing clear what the "truth" is! . Alllegory fills
     in the blank spots with pretty putty................!
 
                            oo ... Dave
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