Two quick comments, because I really don't have time even for these.
1. The Drucker is reasonably insightful art history based on very shakey
premises which she seems to assume have the force of universal acceptance.
And, to paraphrase Bessie Smith, she writes like her shoes are too tight.
2. In a particularly annoying mistake that I failed to catch in one of
Junction Press' books the Spanish "feudo" was translated as "feud" when of
course it means "domain," as in "feudalism." The translator had replaced a
word derived from Latin with a similar word derived from the Germanic.
Liminal/limn does the same. It may be that in the building of a metaphor
you can create a link between the two, and the results could very well be
interesting, but there's no inherent connection. In fact the liminal state
would appear resistant to limning.
Mark
At 12:08 AM 10/12/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>I come late to this discussion, but Drucker is worth looking at here:
>http://www.granarybooks.com/newbooks/drucker3/drucker3.4.html
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>and i'm intrigued by the relation of limn and liminal and their verbal
>and imaginal inter/\twining [definitions from on-line Webster]:
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> Main Entry: lim·i·nal
> Pronunciation: 'li-m&-n&l
> Function: adjective
> Etymology: Latin limin-, limen threshold
> Date: 1884
> 1 : of or relating to a sensory threshold
> 2 : barely perceptible
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> Main Entry: limn
> Pronunciation: 'lim
> Function: transitive verb
> Inflected Form(s): limned; limn·ing /'li-mi[ng],
> 'lim-ni[ng]/
> Etymology: Middle English luminen, limnen to illuminate
> (a manuscript), from Middle French enluminer, from
> Latin illuminare to illuminate
> Date: 1592
> 1 : to draw or paint on a surface
> 2 : to outline in clear sharp detail : DELINEATE
> 3 : DESCRIBE
> - limn·er /'li-m&r, 'lim-n&r/ noun
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