(urth) Urth Digest, Vol 76, Issue 82

[Jerry Friedman]

From: Lee Berman severiansola at hotmail.com

>>James Wynn: I mean, I might have just been lucky in picking my interpretation. 
>>However, it brings 
>>
>>to mind Lee's young woman/crone picture analogy. Or, Stephen King's ink 
>>blot/picture of 
>>
>>Jesus analogy in "The Shining". When I read it, I said "Oh, Pike, Blood, Rose of 
>>Sharon."
...

Would you mind making the connection for me among those three disparate nouns?  
(Not the
connection among the characters.)  Or point me to someplace in the archives?

> Personality conflicts and testosterone levels matter. Even metaphor choice. In 
>the past I used the lovers-
> dolphins optical illusion to make my point and failed to make it. But the young 
>woman-crone seemed to resonate
> better, probably because as Antonio so aptly noted, she is a shapeshifter. 
>Always easier to "believe" in 
>
> something we see happening right in front of us.

If we're collecting these, Nabokov was fond of them: "Find What the Sailor Has 
Hidden" puzzles, or from
/Pale Fire/:

"In life, the mind
Of any man is quick to recognize
Natural shams, and then before his eyes
The reed becomes a bird, the knobby twig
An inchworm, and the cobra head, a big
Wickedly folded moth."

We're not always that quick even in life.  And of course, most of the time in 
life and often even in reading we're
right to read a reed as a reed.

Jerry Friedman


      
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