[percy-l] Peirce/Percy
Karey L. Perkins
karey at charter.net
Sun Aug 17 17:16:27 EDT 2003
Thanks...I think that's what I was looking for. But again, it's still
pretty mysterious.
KP
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From: James Piat
To: Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion
Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2003 12:49 PM
Subject: Re: [percy-l] Peirce/Percy
Percy says in several places that Susanne Langer dropped the ball and he
intended to pick it up -- he says it in the essays, the conversations, etc.
But only one place do I recall that he actually says WHAT she dropped --
what she missed. I believe it was early in my reading, in "Message," but I
don't remember what it was and I'm going to have to go back and look. I
thought someone else might have been familiar with it.
Dear Karey,
Perhaps the passage you are looking for is on page 220 of _The Message in
the Bottle_ . A footnote in Percy's essay "Culture: The Antinomy of the
Scientific Method".
"As Susanne Langer says, we may, if we like, interpret language as a
sequence of events entailing signs, sounds in the air, vibrations of ear
drums, nerve excitation, brain events, response and so on. All this does
happen. But something has been left out and it is the most important thing
of all. It is that the symbol symbolizes something."
Cheers,
Jim Piat
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