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Oddly enough, Dom, I have a very clear memory of the former Labour MP Jack Ashton saying the word 'schedule'. It kind of sticks in my head a boundary point. 2008/5/30 Dominic Fox <[log in to unmask]>: > "there's Isaiah Berlin's account of > meeting Anna Akhmatova who began reciting incomprehensibly: it was > only afterwards Berlin learned that Akhmatova was reciting Byron in > what she thought was English!" > > On which note: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RgL2MKfWTo > > It was a great shock to me when I first heard an audiobook recording > of the Lord of the Rings to find that I'd been getting most of the > names wrong. > > On Prynne: "inscribing new sets of sense-bearing differences upon the > schedule of old ones". "Schedule" is not, or not yet, rhythm; it > suggests a spatial metaphor for time, time plotted on a graph, > "frozen" or "arrested" time. Synchrony rather than diachrony. There is > diachrony only when some active intelligence inscribes the new. > Instead of past and present (time passed and time passing, "narrative" > time), the opposition is between the existing and the novel (time as a > succession of epochs, each new one breaking through the crust of its > precursor). > > Dominic > -- David Bircumshaw Website and A Chide's Alphabet http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/ The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk