NPPF - Incest theme

[Jasper Fidget]

> From: Elainemmbell at aol.com [mailto:Elainemmbell at aol.com]
> 
> In a message dated 7/15/2003 10:05:48 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> jasper at hatguild.org writes:
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> 	"L'if, lifeless tree! Your great Maybe, Rabelais:" (PF: 52)
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> Taxus baccata and Taxus brevifolia are members of the yew family
> (Taxaceae). T. baccata is commonly known as the English yew; it's native
> to (you guessed it) England, but has been introduced to some parts of
> Northeastern U.S. (mainly Vermont). --from Cyberbotanica
> 
> lines 507-510:  You and I,/And she, then a mere tot, moved from New Wye/To
> Yewshade, in another, higher state./I love great mountains...
> 
> So Yewshade is probably in Vermont.  The Yew (L'if) also rather blatantly
> puns on puns on "You, Shade" and may have connotative significance because
> of yews highly toxic/highly curative herbal powers.  (another mirror)
> Although research was already well advanced regarding yew's pharmaceutical
> wonders in the early 60's, it's probably not that research that N would
> have been aware of so much as the ancient uses of yew--capable of killing
> or saving life, depending on how it was used.
> 
> at all yewsful?
> 
> Elaine M.M. Bell, Writer
> (860) 523-9225


And this from Eliot's "Ash Wednesday":

The silent sister veiled in white and blue 
Between the yews, behind the garden god, 
Whose flute is breathless, bent her head and signed but spoke no word 

But the fountain sprang up and the bird sang down 
Redeem the time, redeem the dream 
The token of the word unheard, unspoken 

Till the wind shake a thousand whispers from the yew 

And after this our exile

http://www.pmms.cam.ac.uk/~gjm11/poems/ashwed.html

ajaKasper