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Subject: Re: propose: `cypherpunks license' (Re: Wanted: Twofish source code) Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 21:02:23 -0400 From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>

As entertaining as literary deconstruction can be, what is interesting here is not what Juliet meant, but what Perry Metzger meant in quoting Juliet.

Which to have *any* impact implicity requires a commen understanding of what Juliet was saying within the context of human society and *not* personal ego. From that point it's only a question of what literary technique (eg irony or allegory) was Perry the person using. That technique will define the constraints on what Perry can say, not Perry's desire to say anything in particular. It will always come back to what the base definitions of a word are in a given language-culture milieu. Yes you can play with it but *only* within the context of that language. To do otherwise breaks the syntax-symantics connection and creates another language entirely (or more likely gibberish). ____________________________________________________________________ To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice. Confucius The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage@ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------