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Re: Help with otherworldly logic
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I think Jansy has put her finger on the problem I have with this sentence -
- it is an ourobouros like Escher's castle stairs or like Pale Fire (the
poem).
I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would
not have been expressed, had I not known more [than I can express in words
...] and so on
Carolyn Kunin wrote: "I just ran across the often quoted statement VN made
regarding his belief in a transcendent reality: "I know more than I can
express in words, and the little I can express would not have been
expressed, had I not known more."... It's the second "not" that throws
me....
The engraver Escher
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- it is an ourobouros like Escher's castle stairs or like Pale Fire (the
poem).
I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would
not have been expressed, had I not known more [than I can express in words
...] and so on
Carolyn Kunin wrote: "I just ran across the often quoted statement VN made
regarding his belief in a transcendent reality: "I know more than I can
express in words, and the little I can express would not have been
expressed, had I not known more."... It's the second "not" that throws
me....
The engraver Escher
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