This and your post below about Harper (?) put me in mind of this great sci fi short story called Prolog. It is a tale about our first use of language and takes place outside of a cave where a man sits and ponders as his wife feeds their new child. It is a time when language was still in its infancy and gestures and grunts of sound where the main form of communication. The man observes the child's signal to his wife, a murmur of mmm's. Later as he is coming back from foraging for wood, he spies a wolf about to snatch the child from its cave mouth bed. He is too far away to intervene so in his panic he does the next best thing and utters the sound that will bring help. Mama!
I can't recall the author's name but I know I have it in a collection somewhere.
cweekly
· 11 months ago
Great story rhbee1. Thanks for sharing. =) Thought and language are so deeply intertwined, it's hard to imagine what "thinking" would have meant to these ancestors of ours. Hell, there are significant differences in thought patterns in modern cultures largely attributed to subtle language differences. How much more so when there isn't any language at all?
Zora Neal Hurston wrote: "Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought."
I wonder about that depth of thought. This stuff fascinates me.
Anyway I seem to have fixed the comments feature so it should be easy now to post anytime you feel like it. Thanks again for the heads up.
rhbee1
· 11 months ago
Okay, I wrote a comment here but because you have a secondary provider in place and no instructions I thought that just entering my info was enough but of course nothing is simple and straight forward so to bad because just like shaving cream down the drain so are words that are written but not posted.
rhbee1
· 11 months ago
"Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought."
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I can't recall the author's name but I know I have it in a collection somewhere.
Thought and language are so deeply intertwined, it's hard to imagine what "thinking" would have meant to these ancestors of ours. Hell, there are significant differences in thought patterns in modern cultures largely attributed to subtle language differences. How much more so when there isn't any language at all?
Zora Neal Hurston wrote:
"Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought."
I wonder about that depth of thought. This stuff fascinates me.
Anyway I seem to have fixed the comments feature so it should be easy now to post anytime you feel like it. Thanks again for the heads up.
Wow!