SLSL "TSR" frogs = death?

[Otto]

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Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2002 5:27 AM
Subject: Re: SLSL "TSR" frogs = death?


>
> In a message dated 12/6/02 9:09:28 AM, ottosell at yahoo.de writes:
>
> << That's absolutely right. But in the case of Pynchon's frogs a critic
should
>
> talk about and look at the Greek play and then reject it as a possible
>
> allusion.
>
>
> Otto >>
>
> If that's what a critic should do, i.e., "reject it as a possible
allusion,"
> then I'm glad I'm not a critic. Which doesn't mean that all possible
> allusions are equaly valid, or, that there is no valid interpretation, but
> that there are many allusions, some perhaps more valid than others,
> but all equally existent. Rejection would invest the rejected with a
> special significance, albeit negative, that would continue to haunt,
> given the dialectics of reason, even to the extent that the ordained
> would become predicated on the ghost of the banished.
>
> repectfully
>

Right, only if he's got that opinion, of course. If he thinks it's a valid
allusion he has to verify, give arguments for it.

Dunno if I got your last sentence 100% right but yes, I think when it comes
to masses of croaking frogs I believe Aristophanes' ghost frogs are haunting
the literature maybe even more than the second plague mentioned by Rob,
because in the "Exodus"-text I've got the frogs aren't especially known for
intensive croaking.

> but all equally existent.

Right, I haven't finished _Moby Dick_ in English yet but I really like the
"Extracts"-chapter (pp. 10-20).

Otto

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