SUO: Re: Transformations Of Discourse
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[ Point Of Order, Point Of Focus:
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| Once again, I find that there is a "form of mis-apprehension" (FOMA)
| that is likely to arise here on account of the fact that I am forced,
| by all sorts of rhetorical considerations that lie beyond my control,
| to present these materials in almost exactly the opposite order from
| that of the temporal evolution in which they were actually developed.
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| Invoking the motif of my initial overture, I could say that I first
| came to know these elemental qualities as Tess, and Joe, and Mariah,
| only later to learn their more common names, "rain", "fire", "wind",
| and only much later in life, after a considerable effort to acquire
| the necessary level of abstraction, with all of the hard-won trials
| of incremental detachment and increased sophistication that it took
| to do so, finally got the requisite nerve to replace every trace of
| concrete sensation with the paltry qualities of x1, x2, x3, no more.
| And so, once again, I recognize that I have left what is really the
| tougher leg of the round and round trip of transformation to others.
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| And when it comes to why I would even want to go through all of this,
| I will have to confess, in order to answer that, a quite ego-centric
| bias. I am mostly concerned with the changes of that special system
| that I call my self, though, of course, I realize that it is as much
| an act of self-deception to call it a "self" as it is an illusion of
| systematic perspective to call it a "system". But skip that for now.
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| So what we have here is three languages:
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| 1. The language of "Way Out Here" (WOH).
| 2. The language of "Any War Else" (AWE).
| 3. The language of "Way Out Thar" (WOT).
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| And while I have proceeded through the series 1, 2, 3,
| You are being asked to take them in the order 3, 2, 1.
| I hope that serves to alleviate some of the confusion!
|
| Jon Awbrey
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