Manifesto?

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

Kneasy wrote in http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the_
old_crowd/message/1513 :

<< An illustration - a colour-blind man sees the world differently,
but he does not see 'truth' - because the filtering/transmission
mechanism through which he views the world is faulty. Has what
he sees "taken on a life of its own" because it looks different? No,
I don't believe so; what he sees is a misrepresentation, an aberrant
image - and no matter that it may be interesting or informative, it's
wrong. >>

I've heard of color-blind men being specially recruited to see things
whose camouflage deceives the normally-sighted, but can't remember any
details just now. We normally-sighted don't see the markings on flower
petals that bees see, because we don't see in the UV range. 

In a way, all colors are illusions, because the reality is
electromagnetic radiation of different wave lengths. Some people have
a fourth color receptor that the rest of us lack; the rest for that
trait is to find the image hidden in a bunch of green polka-dots; to
them, the green dots are a different color than the blue+yellow dots.

Anyway, it seems to me that some texts have taken on "a life of their
own", separate from authorial intents, because the texts are
widely-read and the author is completely unknown, such as the Iliad.