SLSL "TSR" Frogs

[pynchonoid]

 jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> ... just cutting and posting a chunk from a play
> isn't really anything.

Not by itself, of course.  You have to think of the
connection in the first place. 

Just curious, since you seem to be arguing that
Pynchon makes no obvious allusion to Aristophanes'
play,  why dismiss the phrase "frogs intoned a savage
chorus"?  "frogs" is, after all, the title of the
play, while "chorus" clearly carries a reference to
Greek tragedy:

Main Entry:	1 cho·rus 
Pronunciation:	'kOr-&s, 'kor-
Function:	noun
Etymology:	Latin, ring dance, chorus, from Greek
choros
Date:	1586
1 a : a company of singers and dancers in Athenian
drama participating in or commenting on the action;
also : a similar company in later plays b : a
character in Elizabethan drama who speaks the prologue
and epilogue and comments on the action c : an
organized company of singers who sing in concert :
CHOIR; especially : a body of singers who sing the
choral parts of a work (as in opera) d : a group of
dancers and singers supporting the featured players in
a musical comedy or revue
2 a : a part of a song or hymn recurring at intervals
b : the part of a drama sung or spoken by the chorus c
: a composition to be sung by a number of voices in
concert d : the main part of a popular song; also : a
jazz variation on a melodic theme
3 a : something performed, sung, or uttered
simultaneously or unanimously by a number of persons
or animals <a chorus of boos> <that eternal chorus of:
"Are we there yet?" from the back seat -- Sheila More>
b : sounds so uttered <visitors are taken to the woods
by car to hear the mournful choruses of howling wolves
-- Bob Gaines>
- in chorus : in unison 
<http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary>


No offense intended, but it still sounds like "not
invented here" syndrome, jbor in a dis-Dave-Monroe
mode as he has been since last week.  I do expect jbor
would be croaking a different tune if he had thought
of The Frogs first.

-Doug









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