Percy-L: Literary, Religious, Scientific, and Philosophical Discussion of Walker Percy

["Parlin, Steven" <PARLINS AT culver.org>]

"On the other hand, if Blake could see the universe in a grain of sand, 
why shouldn't Bloom hear it...."

Bravo Ken!




-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Armstrong [mailto:armstron AT ohiou.edu]
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 1:34 PM
To: Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion
Subject: Re: [percy-l] Does Deconstruction Have a Future?


At 10:56 PM 10/7/2003 -0400, Jim Piat wrote:
>Dear Ken,
>
>Thanks for your comments.  I think you make a good point.  However,  it 
>seems to me one could as well argue that the naive realists take a partial 
>truth (that the ability to communicate depends in part upon a shared or 
>common interpretation of events) and generalize it into an absurdity  -- 
>i.e. what is self evidently the "real" meaning of events for oneself is 
>also self evidently the meaning of events for everyone.

   OK by me to make the argument against naive realists, I don't know who 
they are ( Bloom?) and how they get into this mix. But let's do call out 
anyone who tries to subdue the whole truth to a partial truth. Only let's 
not excuse the deconstructionists because the naive realists are doing it, 
too (and, of course, vice versa).

>Such egocentrism reminds me of the joke that professor Bloom appears to 
>have mistaken his own bowel sounds for the rumblings of the universe.

   On the other hand, if Blake could see the universe in a grain of sand, 
why shouldn't Bloom hear it....

Cheers,
  Ken A.


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