BEER Ch. 4 DeepArcher

[Charles Albert]

On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>wrote:

> "'Like "departure," only you pronounce it DeepArcher?'" (BE, Ch. 4, p. 36)
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> Clinamen (pronounced /klaɪˈneɪmɛn/, plural clinamina, derived from
> clīnāre, to incline) is the Latin name Lucretius gave to the
> unpredictable swerve of atoms, in order to defend the atomistic
> doctrine of Epicurus.
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> The term has been taken up by Harold Bloom to describe the
> inclinations of writers to "swerve" from the influence of their
> predecessors; it is the first of his "Ratios of Revision" as described
> in The Anxiety of Influence.
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The Swerve is also the title of Steven Greenblatt's book on the
serendipitous re-discovery of the complete text of Lucretius' On the Matter
of Things by Poggio
Bracciolini.....<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poggio_Bracciolini>

Swerve can also be used to describe much of the action in BE, as Maxine
tends to "happen upon" connective elements of the mystery with a frequency
not entirely explainable by "coincidence".

love,
cfa
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poggio_Bracciolini>
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