GRGR(1): Some ideas
Paul Murphy
paul.murphy at utoronto.ca
Tue Sep 24 18:50:08 CDT 1996
Andrew Dinn wrote:
> Page 4 para 1
>
> `A judgement from which there is no appeal'? Beats me.
Might this not be another version of the sense of preterition as the
'irrevocable', the non-revocatur? An irreversible fall or collapse?
Jumping ahead a bit to the description of the rocket's parabola, the
rainbow:
"That shape of no surprise, no second chances, no return" (209)
Presumably, also of no appeal.
Cheers,
Paul
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