A friend of mine gave me (at age 16) a placard which said:
"/I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm
not sure that what you heard is what I meant"/
Anytime someone's sentences come packed a bit too tight for me to unpack
easily or if I am confused or even offended by what appears to be a
complex convolution, I remember that phrase.
I have come to trust Arlo to mean exactly what he says even if or when
it is beyond my focus or context to parse it well...
In that spirit (being not completely sure how tightly in his cheek
Doug's tongue was planted when he wrote this), I happily second Arlo's
most excellent one-liner (are parenthetical inclusions allowed
technically in one-liners?).
- Steve
I nominate this for the coveted (yet prestigious) award of /*FRIAM
Sentence of the Year*/!
Seriously, this one sentence captures the essence of what it means to
be on this list. If it were allowed, I'd award extra points for it
having been delivered concisely, if not precisely.
Long-time members of this list will recognize the magnitude of the
honor this award would represent.
I shall leave you all to ponder the the integral of my action function.
--Doug
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Arlo Barnes <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
/*So if you are saying that actions are the derivative of
feelings, because feelings are [an interpretation of] a trend,
does that mean all we have to do to perceive intent is to find the
integral of an action function, indefinite as the result may be?*/
-Arlo James Barnes
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