V---2nd Coral...

[Ian Livingston]

alive, alive-o.
As opposed to inanimate, inanimate-o. Although coral seems to cross
the line and be a little of each, as it builds its own inanimate
structures from its animate functions. Representative, perhaps, of the
excluded middle of the binary?

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Nice....
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> And my First Thought and i hope Best Thought is that it is
> coral because coral is alive..........??
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
> To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Tue, January 4, 2011 11:03:05 AM
> Subject: Re: V---2nd Coral...
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> In heraldry, the charge of a mermaid is commonly represented with a
> comb and a mirror, and blazoned as a 'mermaid in her vanity'. Merfolk
> were used to symbolize eloquence in speech.[citation needed] (from
> Wikipedia).
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> It is my understanding from discussions with my artist friend, that a
> golden comb and mirror are the traditional accoutrements of the
> mermaid. Why coral, though? Could it have to do with color of the
> Mediterranean in its shallows, e.g. around and about Malta?
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> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Coral pervades TRPs world...."of the sea'....
>> There is a coral comb in V.......
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>> why?
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>> A---and didn't that horror Foppl feel turned on by the innocence of the woman
>>he
>> ruined?
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>> THAT---happens in Measure for Measure as Angelo is beseeched by the
>> non-in-training.
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>> Unexpected awful powerful moment in that play.....
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>> "Shakespeare and T.S. Eliot ruined us all"----Austo
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> "liber enim librum aperit."
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