Ellipsis (was grgr (34): "now everybody---")

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy

Anyone thought much about P's incontinent sprinkling of ellipsis
everywhere?  I do it myself, I'm afraid....  

My little fuzzy paperback dictionary here defines "ellipsis" as
1) the omission of a word or words necessary for complete grammatical
construction but understood in the context (a slang-y example from
American English -- "I could care less" *really* means "I couldn't care
less" -- and I hate people who don't say it properly)
2) a mark (...) indicating an intentional omission of words or letters
or an abrupt change of thought, lapse of time,incomplete statement,
etc.

I don't have my copy handy, but it occurs to me to wonder; does P close
GR with open ellipsis (three little dots) or with closed ellipsis (four
little dots)?

Mark

--- Lorentzen / Nicklaus <lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de> wrote:
>  ... it's a cyclical end and we could start again: a screaming comes
> across the 
> sky ... but unlike in the case of "a way a lone a last a loved a long
> the > 
> riverrun, past eve and adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay,
> brings us by 
> a commodius vicus of recirculation back to howth castle and environs"
> we're not 
> forced to make another round ... one can also, as has been noted here
> before, 
> connect this end to the beginning of vineland ... another issue 
> is the mobilizing aspect of this ending ... we're not only invited to
> sing the 
> song, but, that how it feels to me, to write or paint or sing or
> dance our very 
> own gr (- whatever this measn to  y o u) ... a-and with the so called
> 
> "unfinishedness" of the novel's last part trp has educated us to be
> creative ... 
> ... to flow along while making sense we have to amplify a lot ...
> like joseph 
> beuys sez: "jeder mensch ist ein künstler" (- every human being is an
> artist)...


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