(urth) The Wizard

[David Stockhoff]

I tried to use Finnegan's Wake as an instructional manual, but it never 
got around to the instruction part so I quit reading it and watched 
/Pimp Your Ride/ instead. Now, that's poetry!

On 3/2/2012 2:07 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
> I take it, Mr. Stockhoff, that you believe that "Finnegans Wake" and
> the poetry of TS Eliot have no meaning whatsoever...
>
> On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 11:01 AM, 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Urth Mailing List
>>> To post, write urth at urth.net
>>> Subscription/information: http://www.urth.net
>> _______________________________________________
>> Urth Mailing List
>> To post, write urth at urth.net
>> Subscription/information: http://www.urth.net
>
>