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Donald B. Johnson wrote:
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> ----- Forwarded message from a-nakata@courante.plala.or.jp -----
> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 20:52:06 +0900
> From: Akiko Nakata <a-nakata@courante.plala.or.jp>
With my somewhat brief but airy comments:
John
> Subject: TT-24 Introductory Notes
> To: chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu
92.01-02
"Direct interference in a person's life does not enter or plans" :
I read this as being ambiguous between the generalized "person" and
the particular (Hugh) Person of TT.
>
> 92.06-07: even if the lunette has actually closed around your neck,
and the
> cretinous crowd holds its breath:
In connection with the derivation of "lunette" from Latin "luna",
shall we recall the earlier "meniscus" which derives from the same root
as "moon"?
I do not know the reason, but the narrator
> suddenly begins to talk about an execution on a guillotine. Together with
> the "(now Lord) X," he sounds referring to the French Revolution.
> I wrote before that Sir Percy Blakeney aka Scarlet Pimpernel is
probably in
> "Percy."
Thus providing us by now with Hugh Person (aka Percy), St John Perse the
French poet, and now Sir Percy: giving us a trinity of "Percys"!
92.08 "Only chaos would result"
to which we adjoin
92.14-15 "a breath of wind and to apply the lightest, the most indirect
pressure..."
And there were in those days people chatting about "chaos theory", and
suggesting that a butterfly in Africa flapping its wind might result
in a hurricane in th3e Caribean.
93.06 "ring of banded colors around a dead person"
I believe the term is "aura"
That's all for the moment.
John
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> ----- Forwarded message from a-nakata@courante.plala.or.jp -----
> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 20:52:06 +0900
> From: Akiko Nakata <a-nakata@courante.plala.or.jp>
With my somewhat brief but airy comments:
John
> Subject: TT-24 Introductory Notes
> To: chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu
92.01-02
"Direct interference in a person's life does not enter or plans" :
I read this as being ambiguous between the generalized "person" and
the particular (Hugh) Person of TT.
>
> 92.06-07: even if the lunette has actually closed around your neck,
and the
> cretinous crowd holds its breath:
In connection with the derivation of "lunette" from Latin "luna",
shall we recall the earlier "meniscus" which derives from the same root
as "moon"?
I do not know the reason, but the narrator
> suddenly begins to talk about an execution on a guillotine. Together with
> the "(now Lord) X," he sounds referring to the French Revolution.
> I wrote before that Sir Percy Blakeney aka Scarlet Pimpernel is
probably in
> "Percy."
Thus providing us by now with Hugh Person (aka Percy), St John Perse the
French poet, and now Sir Percy: giving us a trinity of "Percys"!
92.08 "Only chaos would result"
to which we adjoin
92.14-15 "a breath of wind and to apply the lightest, the most indirect
pressure..."
And there were in those days people chatting about "chaos theory", and
suggesting that a butterfly in Africa flapping its wind might result
in a hurricane in th3e Caribean.
93.06 "ring of banded colors around a dead person"
I believe the term is "aura"
That's all for the moment.
John
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