Wednesday 5 May 2010

Entering the Real

Four people went through the wall of language
one looked and died;
one looked and went mad;
one destroyed words;
one entered in peace and departed in peace

6 comments:

xtina said...

djvp

xtina said...

1.verbs and verbals
2.adjectives and adjectivals
3.adverbs and adverbials
4.nouns, pronouns, nominals and pronominals

xtina said...

http://www.kheper.net/topics/hermeneutics/PaRDeS-2.html

xtina said...

the levels of meaning
1.Literal meaning; the contextual, philological level
2. Allegorical meaning; cross-reference to other texts; rational or philosophical level
3. Moral or homiletic meaning; tropological/interpretation via interogation
4. paradigmatic lexical relations or anagogic meaning

xtina said...

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xtina said...

If all you want is to be able to call up a word, then probably simple repetition is fine (unless for some reason you think you will have trouble recalling it later). But suppose you wanted more than that--suppose your objective was to meditate on the virtues of the saint for ethical purposes, "ad imitandum," as indeed Jacopo's text invites you to do. Suppose you weren't really interested at all in the historical "object" [page 106] that was St. Cecilia, let alone in the "verifiable" derivation of her name, but instead in "turning" her example into an ethically fruitful meditation about her life in relation to your own. In that case, the mechanism for such literary "turning" would be called a trope, your meditational exercise would be a "tropological com-position" or "reading" (as we now call it), and the whole point would be to invent as many variations on the basic syllables of the name as your recollective ingenuity, working within your memorystore, could manage. You would be using your memory, your "associations" with the name "Cecilia" to invent a composition, very much in the manner that a performer/composer of music uses a phrase (or "trope") as the foundation for "inventions."

http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/connotations/carruthe22.htm