And then there's the marriage license plate:
http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD%2FMGArticle%2FRTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031780575486
--- Liz Kirby <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> this 'symbolic correspondence' is heading for some
> queer blue water
>
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > -- Norman O. Brown, Love's
> Body
>
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David Latane
http://www.standmagazine.org (Stand Magazine, Leeds)
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