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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