NPPF: anagrams

[Jumbly Girl]

pynchonoid wrote:
> 
> --- Malignd <malignd at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > <<Zembla: No anagrams found.>>
> >
> > It is but one letter away, however, y-z, from Mel
> > Bay,
> > famous ukelele teacher.
> >
> > And the Kinbote/Botkin near-anagram is already alive
> > within Pale Fire.
> 
> Fascinating.  What light does this shed on our reading
> of Pynchon?

>From "The Uses of Obscurity", Allon White, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981. 

Modes of obscurity are important signifying structures in literature and
carry distinct
kinds of meaning which are not secondary to an anterior obscured
content" (p. 18). 


>From "Seven Types of Ambiguity", W. Empson, The Hogarth Press, 1984 

In so far as an ambiguity sustains intricacy, delicacy, or compression
of thought,
or is an opportunism devoted to saying quickly what the reader already
understands, it is to be respected .... It is not to be respected in so
far as it is due to weakness or thinness of thought, obscures the matter
in hand unnecessarily, ... or, when the interest of the passage is not
focussed upon it, ... if the reader will not easily understand the ideas
which are being shuffled....The question is here one of focus; and it is
in modern poetry, when the range of ideas is great and the difficulty of
holding the right ones in mind becomes acute, ... that ambiguity is most
misused." 
(p.167).