V---2nd Coral...

[Thomas Eckhardt]

I don't think anybody has mentioned this yet:

ARIEL [sings]:
Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell

Does sound a little like that Wernher von Braun quote, no? Probably the 
most famous passage in English literature that expresses the idea that 
all nature knows is transformation. For this, as Alice knows, also see 
'A Bower in the Arsacides': 'Life folded Death; Death trellised Life; 
the grim god wived with youthful Life, and begat him curly-headed glories.'

Just riffing,
Thomas






Am 04.01.2011 18:17, schrieb 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?
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> 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...
>>
>> 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).
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> 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.......
>>>
>>> why?
>>>
>>> A---and didn't that horror Foppl feel turned on by the innocence of the woman
>>> he
>>> ruined?
>>>
>>> THAT---happens in Measure for Measure as Angelo is beseeched by the
>>> non-in-training.
>>>
>>> Unexpected awful powerful moment in that play.....
>>>
>>> "Shakespeare and T.S. Eliot ruined us all"----Austo
>>>
>>>
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>>>
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>>
>> --
>> "liber enim librum aperit."
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