Pretext #1 Wk3

David's article was very informative. I never thought of reading in terms of "pretext, text and context". It put a different perspective to literature for me. I think you can see this kind of process when people try to learn another language. Before they can speak the words of the language, they must first learn what each alphabetic unit represents phonetically. After they do, they can move on to texts and say words and understand their meaning. Once that is done, they can put the words together, creating context in sentences, then to phrases till finally they can speak the language in a conversation. Its a necessary process if you want to be successful.

Its interesting how you can apply this process to our own being. I also agree strongly that every discipline should look to the basis of their own domain in order to maximize their understanding of whatever field they're in. If they stray to other forms then it will not work. "Sociobiology" sounds like an interesting concept, I wonder if they'll implement that one day. I'd like to read more into this topic.