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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Everyone has been so nice this morning. Thanks Richard, and
Gene and Hannah and Don, for your wonderful references. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font><font size=2 face=Wingdings><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings'>J</span></font><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> here is a kind of
lyric poem-play for everyone. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=BlockQuote align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=3
face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>A One-act Play<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=BlockQuote><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Language lives as a spirit inside a people... all of whom are joined by
a common understanding, a "group knowledge" if you will. One day, a
herald comes with a trumpet and a parchment. He says that from that day forth,
all the people may speak only from the left side of their brains... for it has
been determined that this is the side closest to "god" and therefore
the "best" . . .<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=BlockQuote><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>And language can no longer move about, for it has lost its feet, and it
can no longer feel, for it has lost its hands and its heart, language can no
longer sound happy or sad, no longer offer solace for woe or companionship in
joy and gladness, for it has lost its voice. Language can now only run in
circles, for it has too much energy for its task, and it can only consider
"disembodied" information, and has no way of validating it, for it
has lost its "body of knowledge". And language becomes lonely and
dispirited. It lives alone in the minds of those who are left, unable to reach
its companions. And having lost its connection with others, it begins to lose
its connection with itself, for it has lost its balance and its joy. ... And
alone, it dies. (Kalish, 2002)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Feel free to copy it as much as you like, and share it with
everyone you like. I wrote it a long time ago, and posted it in the Relational
Languaging discussion group that was hosted by my friend Dan Moonhawk Alford. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Best, <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Mia<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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