The well-known passage from Dewey's Art as Experience quoted above appears in a long passage in which he discusses the differences between "the esthetic" and "the intellectual."' I would like to use it as an appropriate frame of my own thoughts on the work of Rudolf Amheim, particularly some of his statements about language which for me, as a philologist interested in the languages and literatures of Southeast Asia, have been particularly provocative. We have talked for more than a decade about our different images of language, and it seems right to continue that dialogue here in writing. That he has changed my own thinking profoundly will, I hope, be as evident here as the fact that we still differ.