A General Theory of Verbal Humour (GTVH)?

[Glenn Scheper]

http://wwwling.arts.kuleuven.ac.be/iclc/Papers/Veale.pdf
Metaphor and Metonymy: The Cognitive Trump-Cards of Linguistic Humour

...in the General Theory of Verbal Humour (GTVH)...
This names a new TOE (Theory of Everything) to me.

This paper's early mention of Von Braun and its final illumination
of light vs. light-source might bear upon GR. (cf. Byron the Bulb.)

What caught me up was this opening triad (my shouting):
The language of humour ranges from the immediacy of bodily form and function,
IT ALL ITS SENSORY, SEXUAL AND SCATOLOGICAL GLORY,
to the sublime reaches of abstract thought.

I have lately been much pondering my erotic vision I reported here,
http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0512&msg=99508&sort=date
summarizing http://home.earthlink.net/~glenn_scheper/2005-04-09.htm
 1. I would exposit autofellatio.
 2. A woman appears, initiates coitus.
 3. A old man with erection appears.
 4. A choice given: in anus or mouth? -- Mouth.
 5. The man pours semen from his mouth into my mouth.
 6. I am abject: I resolve to war against it all.
 7. The scene is now a great city, or temple.

In regards to the (sensory, sexual, scatological) triad--
or let me particularize by Freudian (oral, genital, anal);
the stranger who poured his own semen due to autofellatio
from his mouth to mine (in the dream vision!) has shared
nothing more than a "WORD" at the (oral, sensory) level,
like Ezekial or John in Rev. were given scrolls to eat:


Word = eat this
    <Book 02 Exodus>
hich the LORD hath given you to eat. 016:016 This is the thing which the LORD ha
    <Book 26 Ezekiel>
 of man, eat that thou findest; eat this roll, and go speak unto the house of Is
    <Book 40 Matthew>
 the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. 026:027 And he took the cu
    <Book 41 Mark>
d gave to them, and said, Take, eat: this is my body. 014:023 And he took the cu
    <Book 42 Luke>
, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer: 022:
    <Book 46 1 Corinthians>
s, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: t
 me. 011:026 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew t
1:027 Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, 


Word = in my mouth
    <Book 04 Numbers>
g? the word that God putteth in my mouth, that shall I speak. 022:039 And Balaam
that which the LORD hath put in my mouth? 023:013 And Balak said unto him, Come,
    <Book 18 Job>
mouth, my tongue hath spoken in my mouth. 033:003 My words shall be of the uprig
    <Book 19 Psalms>
 praise shall continually be in my mouth. 034:002 My soul shall make her boast i
3 And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall s
    <Book 26 Ezekiel>
hen did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness. 003:004 And he 
    <Book 27 Daniel>
 neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, ti
    <Book 66 Revelation>
d, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had ea


However, the crux of "being numbered with transgressors" is that
the orthogonal triad given above can be associated as either/or:

 - (oral & genital) verus anal;

 - oral versus (genital & anal).

The first is the very erotic, scary, inventive realm of such
as Fellini, Pierce, Nash, Pynchon. The second, the hegemony.

Hmmm. Further reflection on reflexion is required to distinquish that
christic and more taboo realm, of the "auto"* from the merely *.


Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
http://home.earthlink.net/~glenn_scheper/
glenn_scheper + at + earthlink.net
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