The Dialogue LO29046

From: AM de Lange (amdelange@postino.up.ac.za)
Date: 08/21/02


Replying to LO29020 --

Dear Organlearners,

Andrew Campbell < ACampnona@aol.com > writes:

>someone, after a recent workshop, posted me two
>picture files in a format I found difficult to get unwrapped
>...then weeks later I managed to get them into an e-mail
>imaging facility and copied them from there in a way that
>I could get these two images by two people to speak to
>each other again. Though in this special case I did not
>place them on different sheets, nor side by side on the
>same sheet. I printed the one onto the other since both
>were tonal images in complementary colour ranges and
>subtle in hue...I think it is possible to overlay maybe as
>many as seven images;-) in this way. I like what this image
>promised.

Greetings dear Andrew,

Thank you very much for this metaphor of overlaid images depicting the
dialogue.

I remebered that in the seventies there was an organisation against
apartheid. I forgot its name. But what i shall never forget is that as
tool it used the dialogue -- getting people together from the entire
political spectrum, even those outside it, to talk freely on apartheid.

What i also shall never forget is how most apartheid politicians lectured
their supporters that any such a dialogue will make them jelly heads so
that communists can misuse them for any purpose. I looked up in the
English-Afrikaans dictionary:-
dialogue="oop-samespraak"=>open-conversation Huh?

Lastly, i remember how much all this confused me. I knew too little of the
dialogue to know which monologue was closer to the truth. I wondered how
an open-conversation can be so evil. It never struck me in those days that
anyone with a questionable agenda cannot allow an open-converstation.

With care and best wishes

-- 

At de Lange <amdelange@postino.up.ac.za> Snailmail: A M de Lange Gold Fields Computer Centre Faculty of Science - University of Pretoria Pretoria 0001 - Rep of South Africa

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