Re: [-empyre-] potential of code..

[Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>]

or perhaps there is no meaning, just in the interpretant.

Anyone can be a visionary, but what does this really mean? Does it mean to
see into, project into, the future? In which case, everyone is to the
extent that we all are somewhat teleologically-based.

I've never thought artists had precedence over others in any way,
including vision...

Alan


On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, tamara lai wrote:

>
> it was not an assertion, just a question. The fact is that certain artists
> et poets are visionaries. As for understanding our own oracles which prove
> often foolish... perhaps we don't seek in the good direction? perhaps the
> meaning is elsewhere...
>
> ce n'état pas une affirmation, juste une question. Il n'empêche que certains
> artistes et poètes sont des visionnaires.
> Quant à comprendre nos propres oracles qui s'avèrent souvent insensés...
> peut-être ne cherchons-nous pas dans la bonne direction ? peut-être le sens
> est ailleurs...
>
>
> t
>
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> > personally I don't think we're prophets at all, any more than any other
> > group. prophecy scares me; we are simply too ignorant to do more than
> > create oracles we can't read ourselves -
> > and which may - for that matter - be nonsensical -
> >
> > Alan (spelling mistakes courtesy of PDA on line on the road)
> >
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