Vera
On Sun, 17 Aug 1997, Mike Cole wrote:
> Hi Vera and Eva--
>
> I put in the dirty-eared doll example because it had just been relayed to
> me and I thought it was cute. Excuse my grandfatherly mis-direction.
>
> Today I am suffering through writing a talk on culture and development to
> give in Loughborough. 50 min=25 double spaced pages. Argh. I have made
> several false starts. One interesting problem to come out of my fight with
> these words is that I am focussing on ontogeny and I figured I could simply
> "cut down" chapter 7 of CP. Wrong. I find that over and over again what
> is said about ontogeny can't be made coherent without the properties of
> culture developed in Chap5 and 'interweaving" discussion in Chapter 6. Of
> course, I knew that "ahead of time" theoretically, but in trying to solve
> the problem, I felt a kind of micro-genetic twinge, as if my theoretical
> knowledge had just risen to the concrete.
>
> Now, if only I can find a way to melt that concrete down to 25 pages, all
> will be well.
>
> I sure wish I could be seeing tall ships sailing silently through the water.
> Here in San Diego the Naval Airstation's hotshot pilots are doing an airshow
> that makes it sound like the Somme in late 1915 and my border collie keeps
> wanting to sit in my lap out of fear.... which doesn't help the writing
> at all!
> mike
>
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Vera P. John-Steiner
Department of Linguistics
Humanities Bldg. 526
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131
(505) 277-6353 or 277-4324
Internet: vygotsky who-is-at triton.unm.edu
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