GRGR(20) "Young Fool"

[jporter]

Viking, 441.3, we read;

  "'Young Fool,' Saure now comes cackling in from out in Berlin."

Emil, a witch of sorts- a wiz if ever a wiz there was- wizened by
experience, comes in *from Berlin,* which, presumably, is a stand in for
everything else *out there,* a narrative distinction or boundary thus
subtley created by metonymy. Of course, like the wiz, it was Emil who sent
S out after the hash, in order to win approval and a trip back to Kansas,
presumably by S-gerat. Who needs ruby slippers?

The confrontation of Emil and Gustav represents a clash, alright, and it
shouldn't be given short schrift. I have no knowledge of SW, or other
experts (I refuse to read them- takes all the fun out of it) So, sorry if I
repeat what may be well known, or disowned. But, the debate is a *set
piece* as striking as Jamf's Chemistry Lecture.

Here, Emil represents Saussure, forshortened, fer sure, but Structuralism
by any other sign. Gustav, would be representing... weeell, how about:
*that which comes after structuralism.*  This could turn into a long
discussion, and it certainly deserves far more time than I can give it just
now. So just a few pointers-

Two interesting aspects (for me) of the Old Fool/Young Fool debate, are,
the idea that Saure is "trying in his underhanded way to cheer Gustav up."
I.e., this is all part of a Western Dialectic- in the family- as it were,
and all the spooky implications of THAT distinction. (See B. Dylan's,
Highway 61 Revisited).

And, the notion of distinctions qua distinctions. Heraclitus and G. Spencer
Brown take note. Saure's metonymic entrance from *Berlin* draws a
distinction between *in here* v. *out there.* But look where Gustav is
situated- as a distinction within a distinction- in the grand piano! the
very height of Western musical evolution! What does all that imply about
the source, or wellspring, of antitheses in general?

Finally, if Structuralism considered Signs as autonomous- freed them from
the constraints of  etymology (cf, organic chemists playing with their
"signs")- the antithesis of structuralism seems to be aiming to free Signs
from objectivity, or, pseudo-objectivity, if you will, altogether, leaving
no priviledged perspective or "purchase" from which to make any
distinctions or interpretations, whatsoever: The final synthetic step or
the death of the western dialectic (off the Planck?). Gustav/Weber is the
son whose self-conscious sacrifice signals the emergence of a new- entirely
unpredictable (except for us readers)- organizing principle.

The Son of Gustav sleeps in my Mac,

jody