From: jg-ltuil@lntecc.comTo: tomsabb@yahoo.comSubject: 1 Corinthians 13Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 18:08:11 +0530
Dear Sir,

Thought is notoriously richer, more various, less distinct than words. There is an intractability inherent in language itself to the whole quality and complexity of our intimate feelings.
It is this intractability that we in words have to wrestle with.

Verbalizing seems to be a two-sided process in which both sides are simutaneously active. On the one hand human experience includes an infinite variety of shades and patterns of feeling, attitude, desire, interest and discrimination. On the other hand language provides a vast range of subtle ways by which to refer to such experiences. When we speak or write, experience in some way merges with, and emerges in the form of patterns of language. But in some minds the language processes reflect not only the main experience, in statements that could be more or less paraphrased, but also much subtler features of the preverbal experience, and features of which the writer may have no awareness except thro' the overtones of what he finds himself writing.Even then he may well fail to notice what he has said.

It is the music of the completed poem - including of course the rhythm, corresponding to the pulsations of energy in its obscure origins - that conveys so much of its non-paraphrasable meaning.

Example:

1 Corinthians 13
The Bible
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and have not love,I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal.And though I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge,and though I have all faith so that I could remove mountains and have not love,I am nothing.And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,and though I give my body to be burned and have not love,it profith me nothing.Love suffereth long and is kind.Love envieth not.Love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doeth not behave itself unseemly.Seeketh not her own.Is not easily provoked.Thinketh no evil.Rejoiceth not in inequity, but rejoiceth in the truth.Bareth all things.Believeth all things.Hopeth all things.Endureth all things.Love never fails.But where there be propheses they shall fail,whether there be tounges, they shall cease,whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.For we know in part, and we prophesy in part,but when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.When I was a child I spake as a child,I understood as a child, I fought as a child,but when I became a man I put away childish things.For now we see though a glass dark plain, but then face to face.Now I know in part, but then shall I know even also as I am known.And now abideth faith, hope, love - these three, but the greatest of these is love.

This is a preamble to what I would tell you later.
Jimmy