Grammar (revisited)
Did grammar always exist in present form, defined, subject to rules that may, at times be broken? Or is there a grammar beyond grammar, an essence that can be appropriated and thus, obviating the need for such definitions as would attempt to render the image, the pathway, itself a god. Poetic diction is attempt to capture this grammar beyond grammar, although when it defines rules it becomes simply grammar, just as every musical system (e.g. Schenker) is just that. Are laws, thus, necessary for living? Only insofar as man has departed from this — or this is the essential Confucian position — protested by the many better acquainted with the mean nature of humanity, and, thusly, engineering any number of checks and balances with which to prod him that he may fulfill often cattle-like function.
