Re: Truth (was Re: virus: Language)

Bill Haloupek (haloupekb@UWSTOUT.EDU)
Mon, 06 Apr 1998 16:06:10 -0500


Robin Faichney wrote:

> Bill Haloupek writes
> >Robin Faichney wrote:
> >
> >> Bill Haloupek writes
> >> >
> >> >"If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man
> >> >as it is, infinite." -William Blake
> >>
> >> Shouldn't that be "windows"?
> >>
> >But Blake was
> >before
> >Huxley, right? Maybe it was Huxley that was referring to Blake.
>
> I rather think so. But don't you take my point?
> --
> Robin Faichney
> http://www.faichney.org/robin/

Yes. I don't know why they call them doors instead of windows. Blake never made
too much sense to me, but then neither did T.S. Eliot, and both were highly regarded
by Joseph Campbell, whom I highly regarded. But you're right, it would make sense
to call them windows, unless you imagined that you could actually go thru them.

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Bill Haloupek haloupekb@uwstout.edu http://www.mscs.uwstout.edu/~billh/home.html