"...Naked man and woman"

[linda_lakeside]

The line is :

"Everybody knows that the naked man and woman - just a shining artifact of the past..."

Thanks,

Boo

That's the line. That's it! That's the one!

[tomsakic]

Interesting article but. It was not the point of Boo. The point of Boo was :

Hi,

Does anyone happen to know whether that line from the song Everybody Knows refers to the drawing on the Voyager spacecraft ?

The line is :

"Everybody knows that the naked man and woman - just a shining artifact of the past..."

Thanks,

Boo

I guess this is what is happening when one does read a thread too fast. I imagine that I will appear like the strange one because I remimber and/or take into account more info about a subject. Well.... that's life.

Interesting objection, Boo. You could be right. Never thought of this:-) It just sounds like the description of Voyager's "shining artefact".

My last post was reffering to Squidgy's post and the correctness of that line, as Linda underlined it:-)

[Tchocolatl]

At this point, I find it better to leave this discussion in the state. You know, what if some extra-terretrials are reading this, what would they think about us?

[tomsakic]

You think (as 99% of science fiction movies) that ETs speak English?

[Tchocolatl]

It's amazing how forums are giving extra-sensorial power to people. Everybody seems to know what we think.

Well... I think, if i refer to what is happening usually between two different cultures, that the comprehension of the language of the other comes first right in the beginning of the encounter, yes - by a way or another.

Each Cortez has his Malinche

(or a keyboard : doo doo doo DOO doo... Do you remimber this one? Music as the intergalactic mean of communiction?)

[tomsakic]

I am always amazed by the variety of links you're bringing here, Tchoco:-)

These days I am deep into science fiction and ETs and ESPs (writing an article on SF). I am rediscovering some BIG authors I didn't read for years. Two greatest: Ursula Le Guin - language and communication and encounter of cultures was the major issue in her greatest novels (The Left Hand of Darkness, The Telling). Stanislaw Lem -rad his five or six novels ten years ago. Now I am redicovering his amazing essays (Summa Technologiae). His main issue also was contact. He spent pages and pages of his best novels (Fiasco, Solaris, Eden, The Invincible, His Master's Voice) discussing language and the philosophical aspects of contact. lem's probably one of greatest moind the mankind ever produced. http://www.lem.pl

This actually started as SF thread:-) That Voyager drawing was symbolic way to express and give the message beyond verbal language.