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georgec@eng.umd.edu (George B. Clark) writes:

>In article <1992Dec11.203544.10959@netcom.com> slf@netcom.com (Sharon Fisher) writes:

>>>I threw the memory home-study course in the trash.
>>   ^^^^^
>>
>>Further evidence that you may be predominantly kinesthetic (as opposed
>>to your saying, "I could see that it was a complete waste," or "It
>>sounds like crap to me").

>A more plausible explanation is the claims of the manufacturer were
>fraudulent.

I'm referring not to your opinion, but how you expressed it.  You
expressed it in kinesthetic terms, and you described the course as
being in visual and auditory terms -- so naturally it wouldn't work
well for you.  That's a problem a friend of mine, who is also
kinesthetic, has had with some of the books; he has to keep reframing
the predominantly visual stuff in the books in terms he can
understand.  (On the other hand, he's great at observing body motions
and how people call up memories.)

>How then do you explain a blind man like Stevie Wonder writing music
>filled with visual lyrics? Listen to the words in his song "I Just
>Called To Say I Love You."

Don't know the words by heart, but since the entire song is about a
*telephone* call -- an *auditory* experience -- classing it as visual
seems silly.  Also, a song is not a normal means of conversation; he
may well have deliberately learned visual images because that's what
he thinks the majority of people want (perhaps he doesn't know this
*consciously*).  

Also, I don't think it's out of the question for a blind person to be
visual; I remember reading something in one of the books about this
but don't remember the details.  Perhaps Carol remembers.