May 29, 2005 20:06
do you ever feel like some objects are actually mistaken?
this does not mean they lose their exterior function, rather, and when this mask is removed a more subtle function is revealed. it's much easier to say this with biological organisms, as opposed to, let's say, a chair.
the word for pit in french you also know that an orchestra pit (fosse d'orchestre) could easily be mistaken for a mass grave in the mind of someone who had no concept of an orchestra, a grave (fossé), or a chair (playing the celebrated role of death).