Sunday, September 18, 2005
This is a drawing of a Koningsreiger made by Carmen
This is a drawing of a 'Koningsreiger' made by Carmen for a collection of English poems I wrote some years ago. The Catalan name of this bird is 'Martinet Blanc'. Linneaus or his followers must have given this very elegant animal a double name in a their type of modernized Latin.
During our quite nomadic life we lost the original of this fine drawing.
We also lost quite a lot of exceptional LP records mainly because of us
using four languages per day and often not understanding each other.
The inventor and founder of Esperanto knew a lot but did not understand the basis of human communication. Body language is some say ten times more effective than abstract signs such
as the one I am using and typng now.
P.S.
As it is becoming a bit late and I am not very inspired I would now only
thank the founders of the Spanish based
- Anti ICT Movement -
for their both reasonable and emotional way of fighting stupid technology.
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I quote Daniel Boorstin who mentions the following fantastic phrase in his brilliant study
The Image
or
What happened to the American dream
that was published in 1961
-Technology...the knack of so arranging the world
that we do not have to experience it. -
Max Frisch, the Swiss author of Homo faber
is the philosopher who wrote this in German.
Sleep well and read you later !
Janosj