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Richard Seddon wrote:
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> Dirk:
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> The essay by Fenellosa (edited by Pound) has an extensive analysis of verbs
> and nouns especially in the context of the Chinese ideograph.
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> I'll give you one quote which, perhaps, is germane to our discussion.
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> "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)
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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
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