[MD] MOQ and Art

[Mike Craghead]

Hi Peter!

If my use of the "heart" cliche offends, pluck it out: pretend I said 
"spleen." I'm open to new metaphors. I'm just using cliche for it's 
clarity, but I agree that if the language conjured up an image for you 
that was that melodramatic (I think I may have drawn that exact picture 
when I was in 8th grade!), that particular cliche may have outlasted 
it's usefulness.

I do think that since DQ experience is really pre-intellectual, it's 
more "felt" than understood. That's what I was driving at with the 
"heart" (er, spleen) is more open to DQ experience; the intellect misses 
DQ when it's too busy.

Mike Craghead

Peter Corteen wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> You say 'The heart is your visceral feeling' but it's not mine.
>
> I know your metaphorical use of head and heart is in widespread use in the
> West but I don't like it. I get a picture of a man holding his arms out
> palms up, his eyes pessimistically gazing upwards, his chest open showing
> his beating heart with a sword puncturing the side and probably three large
> drops of blood about to fall.
>
> I agree in general with how you have described the creative process but I
> just find that metaphorical part inaccurate and sentimental. You say even
> that the heart is more open to DQ - that's just crap.
>
> Peter
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