Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Olive Then how would you describe the Descartians. They are distinct! Jerry Oliver Bryk wrote: > Slobodan wrote: > "He has a didactic formulary that I find as heavy handed, and yes, > Gallic." > I think you've very perceptively put your finger on something that's hard to > articulate with respect to images (IMHO Peter also touched upon it in a > different way). Allow me to quote Allan Bloom: "To overstate only a bit, > there are two writers who between them shape and set the limits to the minds > of educated Frenchmen. Every Frenchman is born, or at least early on > becomes, Cartesian or Pascalian." (from "The Closing of the American Mind".) > Perhaps HCB is a Cartesian and each of us reacts to his Cartesian way of > seeing? > Oliver Bryk > PS I have been present during heated debates among my French colleagues (in > what used to be called a "high-tech" company) and have one of them say to > me, "he'll never understand; he's a Cartesian." > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html