I think that events in this era of late capitalism have pretty well
put paid to that theory, Mairead.
If Pound had been called Octothorp, on the other hand....
Candice
At 07:19 PM 7/10/00 -0400, you wrote:
>What about my theory, Candice, that Pound would have been a different
>sort of bowsie if he had been called Dollar?
>Mairead
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>On Mon, 10 Jul 2000 [log in to unmask] wrote:
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>> First and best, I'd say (the AmperSandman?). But of course Blake was
>> a printer and the grandaddy of graphic artist/designers, too, so he
>> knew the beauty of the analphabetics.
>>
>> Anyone else like the orthograph (aka, "pound sign"): #? I'm fascinated
>> by its long history of shifting meanings, beginning with what I think
>> was its original usage on early (English?) maps to mark a village (8
>> fields around a town square)--Candice
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>> At 05:00 AM 7/11/00 +1100, you wrote:
>> >Also you'd miss the work of Blake.
>> >
>> >Perhaps the first ampersander?
>> >
>> >Alison
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