(urth) The Wizard

[Daniel Petersen]

well, hard-headed, certainly...

On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 7:01 PM, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net>wrote:

>
>     /al·lu·sion//əˈlo͞oZHən/
>
> Noun:
>
> 1. Any reference not spelled out or mentioned concretely in a text but
>   which inattentive and forgetful people insist on reading
>   nevertheless, because they are so confused they forget what book
>   they are reading and thus what book they are /not /reading.
> 2. The practice of making arguments to such references, esp. as an
>   attempt to pull the wool over the eyes of hard-headed realists who
>   know better.
>
>
>
>
>
> On 3/2/2012 1:45 PM, James Wynn wrote:
>
>> Look up the term "allusion".
>>
>> On 3/2/2012 11:01 AM, Gerry Quinn wrote:
>>
>>> In fact, “Silent Silk” and “Silver Silk” are clearly explained in the
>>> text. The claimed association with Dionysus is based on some syllables of
>>> the eponyms resembling syllables in the names of two fauns, one of whom was
>>> associated with Dionysus, and neither of whom is mentioned anywhere in the
>>> text.
>>> Wolfe isn’t “riffing hard” on Dionysus, IMO. Some people are stretching
>>> hard on Dionysus.
>>>
>>
>>
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