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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