Enough of these polysyllabic sesquipedalianisms, already
	Bob

On 6 Jun 2006, at 19:51, Bullard, Claude L ((Len)) wrote:

> It's ok.  I won't pay the Stamp Tax either.
>
> Rashomon is the quintessential 'subjective' over 'objective' point of
> view where even the narrator can't be trusted.   One can say that the
> point of XML is to enable subjective systems with objective
> implementations.   XML enables the lumpiness of scalar domains to be
> dynamically smoothed just as official histories smooth over the
> lumpiness of human personalities interacting in real time events.
> Subjectivity like relativism admits that objective truth is not simply
> expensive to have, it is unstable.  Sort of a topological K-theory of
> markup and real-time.
>
> My writing is much easier to understand than I am in person.
>
> len
>
>
> From: Rick Jelliffe [mailto:rjelliffe@a...]
>
> Michael Kay said:
>>> There are Rashomonic viewpoints
>>
>> Heh, some of us don't have English as our first language, could you
>> stick to words found in www.dictionary.com please?
>
> Finally Len writes something I understand, and you want discourage  
> him!
> :-)
>
> "Rashomon" repeats the same violent story from different  
> viewpoints, and
> regularly makes it into the top 100 in "best film of all time"  
> lists, eg
> http://www.filmsite.org/alist.html
>
>
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