Richard Seddon wrote:
>
> Dirk:
>
> The essay by Fenellosa (edited by Pound) has an extensive analysis of verbs
> and nouns especially in the context of the Chinese ideograph.
>
> I'll give you one quote which, perhaps, is germane to our discussion.
>
> "A true noun, an isolated thing, does not exist in nature.  Things are only
> the terminal point, or rather the meeting points, of actions, cross-sections
> cut through actions, snapshots.  Neither can a pure verb, an abstract
> motion, be possible in nature.  The eye sees noun and verb as one; things in
> motion, motion in things, and so the Chinese conception tends to represent
> them." (page 10)
>

Try out for the fun of it the following as a paraphrase of this quote
from Fenellosa: "One divides into two, NOT Two combine into one."

Carrol

> Rick Seddon
> McIntosh, NM