01-08-2012, 02:45 AM
All of Malta is a hot spot!
Have fun.
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Evidently if we keep assigning different meanings to the word "layers", and respond to comments without defining that, we shall not get very far.
I don't disagree with Leanne's assessment at the top of the page, if the layers she is referring to is as Ray said, I think, that layers are the noise in any communication. If it is layers as is usually talked about in relation to poetry, such as Blake's fourfold vision, I would have to disagree.
As regards the Muse. I refer to that part of my brain (wherever or whatever it is, that sends through poems, that are sometimes already complete, and that my conscious mind had nothing to do with creating). As is the case with poets, I project human characteristics onto a non human thing, According to Coleridge he dreamed the total poem of Kublai Khan. I think I could as easily say that the muse spoke to him, or a poem came full formed from his unconscious mind. Neither term is exact in what it describe, and I suspect both are of equal accuracy, which is to say, not at all. As I worked over twenty years as a counselor, I have come to have little respect for such catchall terms as the unconscious, so I use the term Muse. As the term usually has a female connotation, I can see women would not like the term, and consider it sexist. That is not the way of it for me, but do with it as you will.
Dale
Have fun.
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On topic
Evidently if we keep assigning different meanings to the word "layers", and respond to comments without defining that, we shall not get very far.
I don't disagree with Leanne's assessment at the top of the page, if the layers she is referring to is as Ray said, I think, that layers are the noise in any communication. If it is layers as is usually talked about in relation to poetry, such as Blake's fourfold vision, I would have to disagree.
As regards the Muse. I refer to that part of my brain (wherever or whatever it is, that sends through poems, that are sometimes already complete, and that my conscious mind had nothing to do with creating). As is the case with poets, I project human characteristics onto a non human thing, According to Coleridge he dreamed the total poem of Kublai Khan. I think I could as easily say that the muse spoke to him, or a poem came full formed from his unconscious mind. Neither term is exact in what it describe, and I suspect both are of equal accuracy, which is to say, not at all. As I worked over twenty years as a counselor, I have come to have little respect for such catchall terms as the unconscious, so I use the term Muse. As the term usually has a female connotation, I can see women would not like the term, and consider it sexist. That is not the way of it for me, but do with it as you will.
Dale
How long after picking up the brush, the first masterpiece?
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.