Hi Julah!
Love your reference to that book! Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert Heinlein. Read that decades ago. Very much enjoyed finding the word 'grok'-- How perfect!
def "To grok means to understand and empathize with something or someone to the extent that the object or person becomes part of ones' sense self."
--UrbanDictionary
Loved the "fair witness" too-- which is a "trained observer who has learned how to gather facts without making 'extrapolations or assumptions'."
e.g. When she saw a 'horse' to offer witness about, she didn't "assume" that if you see the left-side, that the right-side actually exists??? .. [0:15] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z78Rh2cReSQ
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land
I want to invite you to add a copy-paste of the material in your OP, over in YW!
Pearlty has a longtime thread for folks to add their quotes or good references that pertain to writing, communications. (She's Gemini, of course! .. and a self-published author of several books of poetry.)
Lots of great pages there. We'd love your addition.
Ha! Today is the anniversary of her thread--
YELLOW WAX Forum
"Poetry Thoughts"
by Pearlty
started June 24, 2013
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