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Course Assignments / WEEK TWELVE / Re: Circle of Life/Axis Mundi
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on: November 04, 2005, 08:45:09 AM
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Erigene --
Pound's favorite quote from Erigena -- OMNIA QUA SUNT LUMINA SUNT
[canto 74]
all things that are are lights
Aother goodie -- "Authority comes from right reason,
never the other way on"
canto 35 |
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Course Assignments / WEEK TWELVE / Re: Which form seems appropriate for the 20th Century?
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on: November 02, 2005, 02:58:29 PM
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Very
good. I think the Cantos have elements of confession all the way
through, Ez writes about himself even as he channels Sigusmundo or Tom
Jefferson or Kung or even Eleanor.
He understood well that the
word 'person' comes from the latin root meaning mask and like Robert
Browning he used historical figures as masks to express his own
thoughts and feelings. |
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Course Assignments / WEEK TWELVE / Re: Do you prefer Pound's version of Paradise Regained,
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on: November 02, 2005, 02:45:55 PM
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Doctor Gell-Mann found the quarks for which he won the Nobel Prize in FW.
("Three
quarks for Muster Mark") Of course the number of quarks has grown
from three to twelve to twenty four the last I heard, but remain
multiples of three.
BTW I think the three sons theme in FW,
with the third always shadowy and mysterious, includes a son who is
born dead or still born as they say. After all Joyce and Bloom both had
one stillborn child... |
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Course Assignments / WEEK TWELVE / Re: Circle of Life/Axis Mundi
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on: November 02, 2005, 02:37:12 PM
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Bobby
Many
have thought Vico and Joyce talk of circles but suggest spirals. See "
the hidden variables" in Coincidance in which I find a DNA spiral in
Finnegan's Wake. Of course we all find our own "mild, tormenting image"
in water as Melville said. In FW, in which language becomes watery ,
also shows each reader his or her own image.
I personally
suspect that Vico was attempting to transcend the divine, the heroic
and the human in one vision that embraced all three. Certainly that
seems to fit Joyce even better than Vico. |
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Course Assignments / WEEK TWELVE / Re: Lps
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on: November 02, 2005, 12:30:52 PM
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Dublin, in local speech, has 4 kinds of mornings
a soft morning -- light rain, drizzle
a hearty morning -- heavy rain
a filthy morning -- heavy rain and bitter winds
a glorious morning, praise God -- the sun finally shines |
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Course Assignments / WEEK TWELVE / Re: Leaves
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on: November 02, 2005, 12:24:47 PM
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The momolog combiines the freshwater Anna Liffey losing her identity in the
saltwater Dublin Bay
and
the tree dying as her last leaves fall to nourish the soil and produse new trees
also
since sara = salt in Sanskrit,Sarah bidding fairwell to Abraham
> Alice bidding fairwell to Humtty Dumpty
magdelene washing the feet of Jesus
[humbly dumbly... to washup]
etc |
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Course Assignments / WEEK ELEVEN / Re: Mind Indestructible
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on: October 27, 2005, 10:50:13 AM
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You captured the essence of Pound's use of the Sudanese legend --
even though rain and industrial waste are hardly equal conditions
in the death camp where a rapist and murderer was hanged every day.
Hooo Fasa |
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Course Assignments / WEEK ELEVEN / Re: Mirthful
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on: October 27, 2005, 10:46:36 AM
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This
theme of divine hilaritas runs all through the Cantos, from the
appearance of Aphrodite at the end of Canto I, in which Pound
emphasizes her Homeric virtu in the word "mirthful," translated from
the Latin. " mirthful - full of or showing high-spirited
merriment; "when hearts were young and gay"; "a poet could not but be
gay, in such a jocund company"- Wordsworth; "the jolly crowd at the
reunion"; "jolly old Saint Nick"; "a jovial old gentleman"; "have a
merry Christmas"; "peals of merry laughter"; "a mirthful laugh" mirthful
- arousing or provoking laughter; "an amusing film with a steady stream
of pranks and pratfalls"; "an amusing fellow"; "a comic hat"; "a
comical look of surprise"; "funny stories that made everybody laugh";
"a very funny writer"; "it would have been laughable if it hadn't hurt
so much"; "a mirthful experience"; "risible courtroom antics" - http://www.thefreedictionary.com/mirthfulvirtu "excellence
in an object of art, passion for works of art," 1722, from It. virtu
"excellence," from L. virtutem (nom. virtus) "virtue" (see virtue). The
same word as virtue, borrowed during a period when everything Italian
was in vogue. Sometimes spelled vertu, after Fr., but this is
unjustified, as this sense of the word is not in Fr. - http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=virtu&searchmode=none
"God rest ye merry, gentlemen" |
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Course Assignments / WEEK ELEVEN / Re: A New Bible
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on: October 27, 2005, 10:43:57 AM
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Why do you suppose Jung recommended Joyce as a new Bible for the Western world? Reading
FW has been called an excellent way to prepare for the psychedelic
space. Jung may have seen it as a key for functioning at higher
levels of consciousness. I agree with him.
"Joyce's prose prepared me to enter psychedelic space." --Timothy Leary, FLASHBACKS
Jung said that Joyce had challenged every dualism
that infests and poisons the Occidental mind. |
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