Re: Interesting analogies...

[James N Rose <***>]

I heard a wonderful story on NPR radio today.
>From the StoryCorps project where anyone can go 
in to their nationwide recording booths and 
record memories and mementoes of our American
human-experiences.

The one NPR aired this moring was from a 
physician who remembered his days as a resident
doing 'rounds' in the wards.  As a laugh for a 
birthday present his family had given him a
bow-tie that lit up when he pressed a secret button
in his pocket.  He thought it was the sillies/dumbest
thing and just tossed it in his knickknack drawer
at home.

Some time later there was a little old Italian woman
in hospital who was convinced she was full of electricity
and was suffering all sorts of symptoms .. which none of the
attending doctors could resolve her of.

This resident came in wearing the bowtie one day and 
as they came to the lady, he stepped forward and
put his hand on her forehead and urged her to 
"push the electricity" out of her body, into him
and he would try to take away the 'stuff' she was
suffering from.

After a few minutes where she was struggling to focus
what-ever it was, out of her and in to him, he pressed
the button, the tie glowed and the woman gleefully
exclaimed, "THERE-A, all-a these electric eese a 
finally out-a me!!  You wunderful, Doctor!"

The story teller then made this closing remark
to his recording:   "She was discharged that day."

I roared with laughter when I heard that!  :-)



pause a moment .. think about entailments and
multi-entanglements and connections....

his one sentence ... she was 'dis-charge-d' of the 
electricity   -and-   'discharged' -from hospital-.

He meant only 'from the hospital', but the
other fit perfectly as well in its own
entwined context group.

This precious gem of language extensions mirrors
the trails and paths of meaning groups, qualia groups,
and all their blended involvements -- 

When have convenient categories to keep things with
similar properties, grouped and clustered together.

But existence and organization is anything -but- 
clean disparate clusterings of ideal qualia.



Welcome to the wonderfulness of a messy universe.
Patterns dominate but everything touches everything else.

:-)


Jamie
2005/11/04