On Thu, 9 Nov 2006 04:34:08 -0000, Robin Hamilton
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Thanks for posting these things, though I'm not sure thanks are in order
given how much time I'm now going to spend looking at them when I should be
mowing the lawn. There's an interesting brief review of Pokorny on
amazon.com by someone who seems knowledgable, indicating Pokorny's
limitations in view of later scholarship.
My first reaction to Pierre Joris' interesting speculations is that if
there's an old connection between poets and rending apart, we'd expect to
find it reflected in Greek mythology. But the only myth I can think of
where a poet is rent apart is Orpheus, which seems slim evidence. Other
people who were torn apart, like Aktaion and Pentheus, weren't poets. Of
course Dionysos whose rites include rending is also a god of poetry, as is
gone into at great length by Nietzsche -- but now we're a long way from PIE.
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