Autobiography & a couple of puzzles

[jporter]

>On Sat, 13 Jan 1996, Tom Maddox wrote:
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>> >From _GR_, the Kirghiz Light.  That one feels like it should refer or
>> allude to something outside the book, some event, civilization, city,
>> *something*.  Anyone got an idea or explanation?


How about TPR's Mother Tongue, or at least the tune that was a hit before
*your mother* was born, but which your mother should know, because she
carries it inside her: Proto-Indo European. Pirate, it seems, was not just
poised to receive a message inside a rocket fired from the Frisian Islands,
in a larger, mythic or recondite sense, he was prepped to receive language
itself, with all its structures and "ways of perceiving" coded inside it.
Language which frames thought and discourse and constrains (and liberates)
the author, made the leep from about the same areas as the rockets. But the
origin of the tongue as suggested seems to have been situated somewhere in
the Kirghiz area. The rocket may have just been following an older more
ancient trail of cultural transmission.

Jody P.

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"Let's all get up and dance to a tune
 that was a hit before your mother was born
 Though she was born a long long time ago,
 your mother should know..." Beatles, YOUR MOTHER SHOULD KNOW


..That scrawny cry--It was
 A chorister whose c preceded the choir.
 It was part of the colossal sun,

 Surrounded by its choral rings,
 Still far away. It was like
 A new knowledge of reality.

     (from Wallace Stevens, NOT IDEAS ABOUT THE THING BUT THE THING ITSELF)