one more, on greek

one of the most mysterious things to me, understanding. episteme.

both the same, both topic and metaphore: to get something one must stand under it. but why.

and where is the old nazi, heiddegger to make sense of it.

of prepositions

i am a philologist by training, and one of the most mysterious aspects of language is prepositions.

they can mean numerous things.

for instance:

de--on or of
apo--from or agency
by--beside of agency

and myriad other things.

the only competitor, particles. and the final authority, smyth, is surprisingly thin on the subject. though hackett has an edition of denniston, the author of the greek particles, a fascinating book. and on to the particles.

though, without them, greek would be so much more difficult. they convey emotion, irony, personality, and so many other things. it's surprising how many sentences hang on them. not to mention poetry.

well, one day. thus endeth the lecture.

gin, exercise ball

stretching on a bottle of segrams is intersting.

here's to the last of it. the last rob buck of the morning.

it's nice to drink on the lord's day, in the morning.

wonder...

still find it amazing, after all these years, the greek language grounded in action.

for instance, understand, episteme, epistemology.

what? understanding. standing under what? and are both we and the greeks standing under the same thing?

why under?

why not sitting, as the Buddhist do?

why why?