human dog metaphors (3)

[Thomas Eckhardt]

> First, these posts of mine on dogs are very disjointed ramblings with lots of
>quotes that I felt might generate Positive dialogue. Sorry Thomas, the
Johnson on
>Shakespeare may be some cross wired confusion on my part. My objective was to
>simply provide stimuli. Thank you for responding. In the middle of a fury, Lars
>continued to discuss the text and introduced a new thread (introduced
previously
>by Mark Wright but not taken up by the group) on human dogs and referenced GG's
>Dog Years. We can almost toss  "metaphor" (maybe better discussed during
free for
>all discussion between texts) out.  Doug provided additional quotes on dogs
we can
>discuss. Note I rambled on and off topic and have not discussed dogs much
at all.
>I think Pynchon and Grass--as I noted in my first post on this topic--open all
>sorts of interesting doors.  Its seems odd that we complain about nothing
new to
>discuss and the absence of sages from the past while we engage in flame
wars and
>run a guy like Max off the list.

Unfortunately my posts to the list seem to arrive a day or two late ever
since the server got reconstructed. Thus you replied to the carbon copy I
sent to your address before my post actually reached the list. Sorry, but
there's nothing I can do about this. 

I quite like your "disjointed ramblings", even if I frequently don't know
what exactly is going on. It is interesting to note that Guenter Grass
obviously has a much better image overseas than he has in Germany. Quite a
few people on the list seem to think that he is one of the great
contemporary novelists. Generally I tend to agree with Kai as far as Grass
is concerned, but then perhaps I should read some more of his stuff. Haven't
read "Dog Years", for example. 

>> 3) You quote Johnson saying about Shakespeare that his words flew "like sap
>> from a tree." This is very interesting for me. Where in Johnson can I find
>> this statement?

>Sorry to blame this on my faulty memory, it might be from Johnson's
Shakespeare,
>anyone?

Thanks for providing the link to the Virginia-Woolf-page in follow-up. This
seems to be a rather common idea. If you are interested in the imagery of
trees/words/memory in contemporary writing I'd recommend Derek Walcott's
'Cul de Sac Valley' from "The Arkansas Testament".

My V. references were based upon the Picador paperback.



 
Thomas

			
                   		
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