Graphic content / 1,6 Jessicaroger

[Michael Bailey]

Ghetta Life wrote:
>
> The "analysis" (really nothing more than a count) of word occurance in GR
> has about as much "true meaning" (you're not supposed to link those words in
> the world of Pomo) as the word count in the seance.  It's supposed to be
> funny, not taken seriously except by the devotees.  Although it might be a
> jab at Nabokov's coded word-count/game in Pale Fire (1962), also dug-up by
> devotees.  But of Nabokov's game, I don't remember specifics, only that they
> were subtle messages from the other side channeled through a deranged
> "editor."  At least that was one theory (I think).
>
> Ghetta

I remember browsing Pale Fire as a teenage in a drugstore, but not
buying it because the narrator didn't seem to have much sympathy for
his own daughter.  Perhaps as an adult I'd enjoy it more,  do you
think it would be worthwhile to read in conjunction with GRGR?

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I've succeeded in making a couple gnuplot graphs of rank-frequency in
KJV and GR, though not yet content with their content
since it wouldn't be prudent to send attachments to the list, now need
to think about putting content on one of my empty websites and posting
a link
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kent mueller queried:
>
> "It's not the name, but the act of naming"
>
> whozedat?
>
>

I read a post on this list recently that included that statement. 
Can't find it though it sounds like maybe a jbor thing to say?

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1,6 "And there've been the moments, more of them lately too - times
when face-to-face there has been no way to tell which of them is
which.  Both at the same time feeling the same eerie
confusion...something like looking in a mirror by surprise but...more
than that, the feeling of actually being joined...when after - who
knows? two minutes, a week? they realize, separate again, what's been
going on, that Roger and Jessica were merged into a joint creature
unaware of itself....In a life he has cursed, again and again, for its
need to believe so much in the trans-observable, here is the first,
the very first real magic: data he can't argue away."
- V38, 26-35

More than a beast with two backs, one creature with two bodies
"unaware of itself" - the awkwardness of self-consciousness lost (one
of the Plato dialogues talks about this, I think - primevally we were
these round creatures but broke in half and always looking for our
lost other half)
Beaver and Jessica aren't actually married yet - so she is just
playing the field with Roger, there isn't adultery involved (CSMA-CD
instead of token ring) -
the war (specifically the detonation of the revenge-weapon) provides
the shock that overcomes Jessica's inertia (the hundred miles between
herself and the stranger)
but there is a real compatibility there that they are tapping

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"Acceptance, forgiveness, love - now that's a philosophy of life!"
-Woody Allen, as Broadway Danny Rose