Silliman is what his name says, if he thinks I'm going to struggle
through procedures of neo-byzantine complexity (I have another
expression for this) to make a comment on his blog (I gave up after 4
attempts). He says of a quotation from Jessica Smith "The capitalized
letters forming a spine running vertically through the lefthand clusters
appear, at first glance, to be some sort of acrostic, but if so, then
they must anagrams as well. If not, then their motivation is spatial &
not content-driven. " In fact that mesostic reads "Die Liebe hoeret
nimmer", which is a straght quote from Corinthians 13/8 in the Luther
translation, missing the all-important separable prefix "auf" at the end
of the sentence: in English it would read "Love never ceases", in the AV
"Love never faileth". If Mr Silliman would take note of the subsequent
words in that text: they apply to all of us & especially to bloggers.
mj
Ron Silliman wrote:
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> The plastic poetry of Jessica Smith
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One must be prepared for a piece of music which is laden with symbols: bells, Poltergeist knocks and grotesque figues. Kasper Rofelt.
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