NPPF: anagrams

[joeallonby]

Hey Jumbly Girl,

I fear that I have accidentally deleted many of your pertinent and
insightful posts because they look like British porn spam.

Perhaps you should choose another moniker.

No need for anonymity,
Joe

 on 7/3/03 9:03 PM, Jumbly Girl at lycidas2 at earthlink.net wrote:

> 
> 
> 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).