Denis:
>..... Instincto is
>first and foremost an art of living, a philosphy of life, a metaphysical
>experience at odds whith any attempt to reach full rationalization..... we
will, at some stage, necessarily face the hard facts of not being able to
>rationalize anymore.... The peculiar time and place when each one
>of us decides he has pondered enough and he is now
>ready to ACT according to his (necessarily limited) understanding, is very
>much linked to our tolerance for intellectual emptiness. What we should be
>looking for, in that respect, is the time when we are no longer concerned
>with what can be counted or measured. As Nicholas de Cusa put it a few
>centuries ago, we should avoid resembling a child who has not yet learned to
>count "otherwise than by adding one pea to another".
I now count peas with a four cup measure, Denis, but am ignorant of the
slide rule, which ignorance is unsettling, demanding long evaluation of
concerns; because the entry through the door into that "peculiar time and
place" of action is a bold and frightening thing if undertaken with elan
alone,if unsupported by a lifetime of trust in one's own metaphysics. For a
female to develope such a platform is an especially hard road; only in the
last quarter century have any but a rare one of us such as your Clara Davis
fearlessly (?) carried thought into such action.
>I must say that as I child I never satisfied myself with simili-conclusions
>or half evidence. This in turn was the cause of much fear and anguish. Ever
>since I knew that I could revert to some manifold inner wisdom instead of
>having to gulp down whatever authority was being imposed on me, I felt
>relieved from an unfathomable burden.
Yes, brave even for the man. Many never achieve this serenity. Mon mari has
been attempting to aid me in this endeavor for four score plus years. I
believe he was born with it. I believe it is called, also, intelligence.
>.....Clara Davis ..."The real artist in the
>feeding line brings the proper food to the child in the proper way and lets
>nature and hunger do the rest". ...... the same Dr Davis will devote the
last ten years of a busy professional career to demonstrate the validity of the
>"instinct" hypothesis, against the growing fad of behaviorist theories
>threatening the traditional tenets of subjective psychology.
It would be good of you to reveal any book? or expound on her hypothesis a
bit, as she saw it? I was moved by your touching story about her---and you.
>...... All unfit for the man's world. Eternal refugees of
>the impotence of men.
a most unusual concept for a man to hold, M. PEYRAT.
>She took the flowers from my hands all the while looking at me with
>understanding and humour.
>... Until one day I decided I had enough...That was the year they deprived
>me of Christmas present because I had refused their junk food. Can you
>imagine that ? Depriving a fifteen year old boy of Christmas present because
>he refuses to eat...
Je pluire.
But we must all follow our own road, en fin, non?
Pat
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