Rank: Advanced Member Groups: Dealers, Member Joined: 4/5/2008(UTC) Posts: 404 Points: 1,235 Location: Yonkers, NY
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The following quote caught my eye .....
" ... the accepted notion that hidden skills and formulas are in possession of the guilds--which have been handed down to them by bygone generations of dead dyers--is fabulous, however picturesque. For their skills and formulas are known. Indeed, a second-year student of dying on any Western college possesses wider and clearer notions of the matter than the most noted member of any of the guild of dyers."
I cannot recall the last time I have been so offended by a passage of writing, nor noticed such a frightening example of the sterility of our own times and culture, as this passage. Some kid at a college class knows more than someone spending their entire life at an almost mystical craft. Sure, chemically this may be true. But what of the magic, the soul and mystery? This is exactly what is killing the culture of the West today. They have no conception of this. So I guess by this analogy, the second year college student at typing is more adept than Shakespeare, Hafez, or Cicero because he possesses a greater technology of execution of his words. And the biology student more adept at love and romance than those in love and swept away on February 14th. I would have thought by now that we understood the effects of soulless mechanism upon the human creature. But, I guess not. (Sorry for the screed.)
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