GR translation: with edges fine and combed as rain

Markekohut markekohut at yahoo.com
Sun Mar 17 12:55:44 CDT 2013


Meta, meta, meta!!!

Sent from my iPad

On Mar 17, 2013, at 1:39 PM, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:

> Are you saying the text has been combed through, its mistakes and
> typographicals corrected?
> 
> On 3/17/13, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Simple question: if you think there is a typo in that passage, do you think
>> TRP and Ms. Jackson have never noticed it, nor have had it pointed out so
>> that it could be corrected In later editions? That Penguin Classics w
>> approved cover edition ( at least)...as well as later printings of earlier
>> editions...could have been changed.
>> 
>> ????
>> 
>> Sent from my iPad
>> 
>> On Mar 17, 2013, at 10:56 AM, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Yes, as any brick man knows, the mud or mortar a mason slings is clear,
>>> that is, it is clean dirt, light in hue,  when mixed to a clear
>>> consistency,  though tile setters color it, add hints of tints then trowel
>>> blade the mud clear and clean. The mud of baseball too, the clay of
>>> Chesapeake Bay, the mud on the face of ladies lounging in Adirondacks,
>>> Chinese girls in paper masks attending to their crusty digits, the mud of
>>> two cities, a tale of that pulls and pushes the post to splattered
>>> victims.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Sunday, March 17, 2013, David Morris wrote:
>>>> Clear as mud.
>>>> 
>>>> On Saturday, March 16, 2013, alice wellintown wrote:
>>>>> A simile, such as the one you've provided, is a type of metaphor, in
>>>>> this case the simile is constructed with "as", though it can be made
>>>>> with "like' as well, and without either.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Though most students are taught that a simile always uses one or the
>>>>> other, this is false.
>>>>> 
>>>>> The comparison is all that is needed.
>>>>> 
>>>>> A non-simile metaphor or a metaphor that is not a similie will not
>>>>> make the comparison but the claim, so if we take your example and
>>>>> apply it to me,  thus, "Alice is a box of rocks", we see that it is
>>>>> not  a matter of obscurity but of effect.
>>>>> 
>>>>> The former, yours, is surely more obscure, for it compares two
>>>>> un-alike things as it wedges "as" or "like" betwixt them.
>>>>> 
>>>>> And, as "as" and "like" are given grammar's conscriptive usage, and
>>>>> this obscures both from the vulgar tongue we are used to using, this
>>>>> compounds, not obscures the matter.
>>>>> 
>>>>> The matter, as Hamlet tells Polonius, is words, words, words.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Nothing, as far as we know, is more prone to abscure turdity
>>>>> scatalogically,  than words.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Dumb as a box of rocks.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Metaphor.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Why make this obscure?
>> 



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