From: Elizaphanian (Elizaphanian@members.v21.co.uk)
Date: Sat Nov 23 2002 - 18:53:56 GMT
Hello David, anyone following this little spat,
My two pennies worth - although really I agree with what Kevin said, I'm
just indulging in a bit of mischief really ;^)
In the book, the character Lila is presented as being able to read, and to
disagree with Phaedrus about the correct application of a concept. I'm
thinking of the disagreement about the 'Jungle Queen' - Lila knows the words
of the pamphlet 'by heart' - it isn't specifically spelt out, but the
implication is reasonably clear that she can read; and then later she
criticises Phaedrus because 'He doesn't even know what a hustler is'. Now,
whether Lila is correct to make that judgement or not is irrelevant - the
point is that she is engaging in definitional dialectic.
Is Lila still "a person that is no part of intellectual values?" That's
becoming a yet more extreme position to hold....
Sam
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