What symbols mean for Wolfe

Lee Berman · 27 Nov 2012, 14:42 · from 2012-November.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 09:42:52 -0500
Subject: (urth) What symbols mean for Wolfe
Message-ID: <SNT123-W356C538721D88F8C56F74FCF5E0 at phx.gbl>



>Ryan Dunn: I think the word "symbol" becomes easier to reconcile in this context 
>when it is clear what the symbol in fact symbolizes in the first place. Then we 
>simply have to accept the fact that humans did not invent those source things 
>(god, hate, love, war, sex, etc.). Those things are what make us human.

I can concur with this view. But what DID invent those source things if not humans?
Evolution? God? Are these words for the same thing (in Wolfe's view)?

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