ABSTRACT
An additional basis for intelligibly asking such a question is that, not only did don Juan witness ‘what happened’, but that, as a brujo, don Juan seems like just the man to ask. So, according to this reading, don Juan’s initial response (‘That is what you told me. Didn’t you?’) is treated by Castaneda as, improperly, referring to the world of experience – the subject world. Notice the distinction that we can read into Castaneda’s statement between object world (‘fly’) and subject world. However, the explanation of events as, for all social scientific purposes, the outcome of inadequate socialization (or whatever), can itself only be a persuasive version (which produces the character) of those events (as events). It is an account which, in this case, speaks the language of the community of social scientists – a language which constitutes the character of both what they look for and what they find.
