[ANSTHRLD] Symbols & symbolism, or, some thoughts on today's threads

[Tim McDaniel]

On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Diane Rudin <serena1570 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> It is that attachment to seeing symbolism in everything around us
> that we most lack in re-creating medieval and Renaissance culture.

Bless you for all your writing, but that sentence in particular.  It
brought that point home to me.  There was a reason why the bestiaries
often talked about what the animals signified.

Daniel "one guess why I have hares on my first arms" de Lincolia
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