deaf, dumb & blind (was re: "one's homeland")

Paul Mackin paul.mackin at verizon.net
Wed May 14 07:49:32 CDT 2003


On Wed, 2003-05-14 at 05:34, lorentzen-nicklaus wrote:
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>             Terrance schrieb: > Either you have the magic eye or you don't.
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>     + perhaps hollander's metaphor is a little misleading.

But Terrance's sarcasm is right on target.

P.
 true, people have 
>     visions and pynchon's prose - think of the posthorn or the ampersand - 
>     contains graphical elements. but it's not visual art. there's much more     
>     music in it. musical is the rhythm and musical is the color (!) of sound.   
>     while reading you should imagine the words being spoken. if there's more in 
>     the text (and often there is ...) --- this goes for musical prose-writers   
>     like pynchon, joyce or thomas mann ---, you will not see yet HEAR it. the   
>     appropriate metaphor for this was coined by the psychoanalyst theodor reik:
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>     LISTENING WITH THE THIRD EAR 
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>     KFL *
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