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DEANNA'S LETTERS - WHAT IS THE FUTURE OF THE WORDS

From: David Boulton [mailto:dboulton@implicity.com]
Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 10:16 AM
To: undisclosed
Subject: Deanna's letters

We were out walking last night....

After much preamble, Deanna repeats for me a rhyme about sewing and asks what does it mean? I ask her what is unclear. Word by word we deconstruct what she had said and find that she knows each word and she knows what they mean as a whole statement. Finally we arrive at the the heart of her question:

"What is the future of the words?"

What she is asking (we clarify over the next few minutes) is what is the meaning of the ABCs - what does each letter mean. How were they born, where are they going - 'what is there future' - what is the nature of their being?

Its, analogous to Daaron and his radar helper http://www.implicity.org/implicit.htm and his 'all-i-gator' http://www.implicity.org/Swimplic.htm in that she is deeply tracking the meaning in my latest work even though there is no explicit pathway, even though we haven't discussed the details. This is coming at a time when I have been intensely engaged in exactly her question http://www.childrenofthecode.org

As I proceeded to unfold for her the history of the alphabet its interesting to note that up until I did she had formed an assumption that the letters had a 'beingness' that had always existed. She is extremely fascinated at the notion that human beings invented all this and how it came about.

I took the track of explaining the alphabet in terms of articulatory notation rather than arbitrary symbols....

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