On 12-29-97 David Martorana wrote to Frank Masingill... 
bEEn fun reading you and frank on this stuff, and just when frank 
was gonna spell it out clearly he said... 
dialogue aL+nD+ 
or something like that, and he lost me. 
 
But I was wondering about the separation we place between visions 
of history, and our vision of our *own* history.  I have stumbled 
across one author or another, and am always happy when some point 
helps me integrate a number of disparate factoids into some sort 
of system. 
 
Likewise, in conversation, some new way of interpreting an event 
actually witnessed ripples through my memmory when it is harmonic 
with other systems of thought I already have, and those that lack 
that harmony, I tend to discard rapidly lest I disorder a system 
of thinking I had gotten used to, just as I do with a viewpoint 
of history. 
 
In either case, it is possible that some new perspective could be 
so fundamental as to create a Zen sense of enlightenment beyond 
the usual array of adaptive integration of new threads.  There is 
a fear in the study of philosophy that it's habit of exposing all 
the tension of habitual double think, and a cascade into chaos of 
unrelated threads if one of these overstressed lines of thinking 
should be severed.  I will be either miserable, or ecstactic. 
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 * OFFLINE 1.58 * makes as much sense as a eunuch in a porn flick. 
--- Maximus 3.01
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