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Author: s.j.lagoes.j.lagoe Date: Sep 18, 2008 06:18
On Sep 18, 1:19Â pm, John J wrote:
> The one bloke said he saw a ballerina for purposes of quotidian, IOW
> conventional conversation. Of course there was no ballerina, but a
> figure one might call symbol of a ballerina. In the end, reduction
> removes the social meaning of the whole thing. It was clay all the time.
> Or perhaps it was dog poop.
Thats fine. Just substitute "ballerina" for "figure" then. The clay is
there all the time. The figure for some of the time. Both different
things with different properties.
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