Originally Posted by: hunter60Jolly-you make a very tight and cognizant argument. Now, I am not fool enough to say that I picked up everything you were saying (I am not an intellectual despite repeated attempts to breach the wall... :) )but I did pick up what I think was the underlying current. Now feel free to correct me if I am wrong (and I am certain I am) but it would seem to me that the basic unwritten theme here is that 'nothing can exist without the language to describe it.'

It felt like a rather powerful and heavy Zen koan. "if you can not describe or name something, does it exist?'

Oh yeah, not sure but in the second paragraph, 17th line, you have 'again intellectualism'. Is that right? Thought it might be a typo and should have read 'against intellectualism'.

Of course, I could be a total pinhead and just didn't quite understand what you were saying there.

Again, I stand amazed by your gift for language. You, my young friend, write with the depth and skill of an long standing academc.

Keep writing. It's vital that we not let this art die. ;)

I actually meant "again intellectualism," as in "again, it is an intellectualism with a desire to control or manipulate" or something like that.

Actually, I'd say one of the themes of The Unnamable is more that things (Worm) exist whether or not language names them. However, Mahood's kind of intellectualism would certainly adhere to that philosophy that "nothing can exist without the language to name it."