Three Monkeys, Ten Minutes

There is a glorious intellectual whammy when something opens new doors and this sort of thing is more likely to come from something within our time period and that addresses our sensibilities. Not completely likely, just more likely. And not even people with special insights who are up to date on most current things can necessarily give those blinding insights. I am following the Damien Borderick forum on ASif with great interest and so far there have been no moments of blinding illumination. Well, except that Broderick wouldn't like my writing, which I was suspecting anyhow. So the sense of language being able to be terribly powerful was important to me and influenced my uni choices. I have to admit, the inherent sexist nature of some of the book helped push me in other directions (rebellion!!). I don't think it would have that great influence now, because I have studied some linguisitcs since then and some anthropology and so the ideas aren't blindingly new.

I hope I'm making sense. Today I feel as if I am seeing everything through gauze.