Good luck at the vet's , Tim. In my experience they're much better than
doctors.
What I mean about Celan's photo is that I don't associate any eidectic
physical image with Celan's voice. That there is a photo loosely associated
on a name-thread is just a curiosity to me, it seems to float free in the
mind-space.
Maybe we should consult 'Borges and I'.
Myself I'm off to eat some chicken and egg.
regards
david
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Subject: Re: Bludaxe
> >>Because how can we separate what we
> >> are reading with our vision - however constructed - of its author.
>
> >H'm. So what about Anon then, Tim?
> >I can quite safely say too, at least in the sense of of my own saying it,
> >rather than that of saying anything on this piranha reserve, that if I'm
> >reading Shakespeare that the templated portraits do not enter my head.
> >And then there's Homer, for instance. And Celan's photo does not 'look'
to
> >me like Celan. It's a separate affair.
> >David
>
> Yea I know. This gave me a sleepless night for a few minutes.
> Anon is as much a character in our heads as a name.
> How do you know the templated portraits of Shakespeare don't enter your
head?
> They have to be in your head for you to ignore them in the first place.
> Did you ever come across A4 Anonymous?
> Author's name and text are chicken and egg and subject to the same
riddle -
> the one helps determine how we read the other and vice versa. In this
sense
> it doesn't matter which comes first because the colouring of one will
shade
> the other in a sequence of exchanges.
> Author name, or Anon, is only one element in this contextual world - the
> other principal one is yourself >which I think is the point of Alison's
> posting this morning< - but author name is more closely associated in a
mind
> with the text that it signs so therefore we focus on it as change or
> development and not just as arbitrary.
> The very fact that "Celan's photo does not 'look' to me like Celan"
> demonstrates that it is >not< a 'separate affair'.
>
> I am off to the vet's now.
>
> All the best
> Tim A.
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