Well, Keston, your guess is as good as mine! And, if mine's but
a flash in the pan, Sigrunically speaking, it may well be better.
It's already a stretch to translate "uh" as "ur cen," let alone
"ur cen" as "you torch," because even though the "ur" rune stands
for the letter "u," the "cen" or (pine-torch) rune stands for the
letter "c," which enables a "uc"/"you see" translation as well or
as ill as the "you torch" one. The stretch entails a leap from the
runic to the alphabetic either way, and therein a leap or stretch
between sight-reading and sound-reading, which goes to the heart
of the knot that cris dreamed of seeking only a few nights before
buying _Heart of Leaves_ and skipping home so enchantingly that I
unconsciously fe-mailed him in yesterday's post.
God, sometimes I think there really is a god! But then when I
read some pro-totality argument and it whiffs to high heaven of
the argument-from-design, _sans_ deity, I go "nah."
What can I say in the face of your uhtterly sound association with
the emphatical O except: where did the h go (if you see my problem)?
One man's _lax_ is another woman's _fax_, it seems.
Wondering about this _tendance_ of yours and Nate's, though, Keston.
What gives with the "simply false"/"plain and simple" line you both
seem to want to take toward Mr. Fibula?
Candice
>Can't shove my head upon this currently, needs draining but had to
>respond in a flash to:
>
>
>"I think "uh" carries a torch as well--if it's read runically--which is
>the only reading I can offer as the kind of reader I am. What it means,
>then, would be _ur cen_ in Anglo-Saxon, or "you torch.""
>
>
>Candice -- can I suggest that the "uh" in Triodes is something rather more
>straightforward: a lax and bland replacement for the "O" of 18th Century
>odes, as described by Prynne in his essay on Emphatical Language. It's a
>lo-fi vocative, plain and simple.
>
>Imagine the Wordsworthian downshift: Uh there is blessing etc. in this
>gentle etc.
>
>Best to all, K
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