Re: VMs: Pleiades Occultation Further Date Refinement

[Dennis <tsalagi@xxxxxxxx>]

Pamela Richards wrote:
> However, I am not attempting to appeal to your
> sympathy, but rather to your use of logic.  I have
> clearly failed so far, so I will attempt to make my
> point one more time.  If I fail again, I think I've
> given this subject enough attention for now, and I
> will desist.

	Please understand that I was not trying to be condescending 
but was sincere.

	I do see your point now.  I shall have to give it more 
thought.  I simply thought that if we see, not a few, but 
many images associated with migraine aura in the VMs, that 
might support a migraine diagnosis for the author.

> Since we have so little to go on, if we choose to use
> the illustrations to provide clues to the text, it is
> a better use of logic to begin with the assumption
> that the artist is using symbols with the intention of
> communicating meaning to his viewer, not simply to
> express a subjective experience that few share with
> him.  The latter assumption is not likely to add much
> to our understanding of the context of the document.

	I also wonder about this.  We have had such a hard time 
understanding any meaning of the text that I think it likely 
that the VMs is outsider art, which by definition is based 
on uncommon experiences.

	Let's leave it at that, as you suggest.   I need to do some 
more thinking and work on it, and I suspect it were better 
used on other things.

Dennis
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