Ah, Jon, that's too heterosexual and matrimonial a poetics for me; all 'symbolic
correspondence' and this from Norman O who said "everything is poetry" is
"Man and Wife?" I don't think in metaphor that "two become one", there's always
a gap, the word's meaning being to transfer a burden from one thing to another,
so there's always that shift of weight, and some resulting gap, no matter how
miniscule, though in the case of _this_ metaphor "Symbolic correspondence is a
marriage" it seems to me more the space that one might drive a bus through.
Anyway, I don't know if this was meant to reply to the quote from Stewart on
puns or what, since there's no by way of introduction to your post, but arriving
as it did and given its "Man and Wife" argument and metaphors, it seems like
another one of those who's on top things, which I as a woman poet find make
me feel a bit 'mat',
best,
Rebecca
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>Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 21:41:49 -0800
>From: Jon Corelis <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: puns
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>Symbolic correspondence is a marriage. The things beneath are related to the
>things above as Man and Wife. Bring them together in a new conjunction, a
>parallelismus membrorum, a rhyme, a couplet or copulation. In puns, "two
>words get on top of each other and become sexual"; in metaphor, two become
>one. What God hath joined no philosophy can put asunder.
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> -- Norman O. Brown, Love's Body
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