From: Maggie Hettinger (hettingr@iglou.com)
Date: Fri Jul 04 2003 - 17:18:41 BST
It's a narrative, so the passages I'm quoting are'nt representative,
but they latch down the concept that the author is working with. In
chapter one, the main character is a young woman in Africa 100,000
years ago who senses danger that the rest of the group ignores, because
it is a new situation and they cannot recognize it, but she notices
something new (a mountain that is spewing volcanic smoke) and it
bothers her, but she doesn't know why, and this is the
"But the young female in this family of early humans had no way of
expressing her thought. They possessed no concept of "future." Danger
that was coming was alien to creatures who knew only of danger that was
now. The humans on the savanna lived as the animals around them lived,
grazing and scavenging, seeking water, running from the predators,
relieving sexual urges, and sleeping when the sun was high and their
stomachs were full."
"But the humans ignored it--Nostril, as he caught a grasshopper and
popped it into his mouth; Honey-Finder, as she yanked up a clump of
flowers to see if the roots were edible; ..."
"The humans lived by impulses and instincts and animal intuitions. Few
of them entertained thoughts. And since they had no thoughts they had
no questions, and therefore they had no need to come up with answers.
The wondered about nothing, questioned nothing. The world was made up
of only what they could see, hear, smell, touch and taste. Nothing was
hidden or unknown..."
The author engages her characters in the situation of emerging
intellect and its place in the social system of her characters current
life and of intellect's previous effects on the social system. It's a
good exploration. And it's an easy read.
I don't think our current situation with emerging intellectual patterns
is any different, but it's easier to see in a story set in a time when
acceptance of the use of intellectual PoV's is the exception instead
of the norm.
cheers,
maggie
On Friday, July 4, 2003, at 11:43 AM, skutvik@online.no wrote:
> On 3 Jul 2003 at 12:54, Maggie Hettinger wrote:
>
>> Hi Bo, Platt, Jonathan and all
>
>> For a fascinating novelization of the emergence of the intellectual,
>> you might want to read the first few chapters of Barbara Wood's "The
>> Blessing Stone." ISBN 0-312-27534-X
>
> Hi Maggie.
> Nice to know that you follow the discussion from a distance and thanks
> for
> the book tip, but couldn't you give a hint of what view - in your view
> - it
> supports? The problem is that the author probably did not write it
> from a
> MOQ p.o.v.and it is the Q-intellectual level which is the bone of
> contention.
> But I will try to get hold of it ...or could you scan/copy some
> relevant
> passages for the forum?
> Bo
>
>
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