Re: More unhinged rantings

[Dennis <ixohoxi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

	Whatever Michael Lima sounds only a little unhinged to
me.  Vickie had severe depression, which may have been
distorting her cognition.  Now Francis Dec is clearly
unhinged:

http://www.teleport.com/~dkossy/newschzwing.html

Note the long strings of adjectives related by sound
rather than meanings.  

	There's a spectrum to all these things.  The only sure
case I know of a (possibly) disturbed person who
invents his own alphabet, and possibly
language/representation system/etc. is James Hampton. 
Unfortunately the easy-to-understand pages on him are
gone.  His work is at the National Museum of American
Art:

http://nmaa-ryder.si.edu/

	I ordered a microfilm of his notebook in Hamptonese
from the Smithsonian and made a copy.  Since I'm
stymied for now on the VMs, I may do some work on it.

Dennis


mskala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
 
> I find the use of the word "heliogram" in the first posting especially
> interesting - it may simply be the result of a computer spell-checker
> (since "heliogram" *is* a real word), but it also seems like a mistake a
> human with a cognitive problem might make.  Note that Lima seemed to have
> been posting from Quebec, where a lot of people speak French natively, and
> he was posting in English, so it's possible that there's a language
> barrier involved as well, although I can't really believe that the
> strangeness of his postings is solely due to bad translation.