For those of you who have never heard a Theorbos http://www.lutherie-van-gool.nl/geluid/theorbe.asf
Also, for those who don't don't know what a theoros is.. I found this but I have read alternate explanations one of which being they were special preists sent to witness provincial festivals.. A review of our disciplinary resources reveals that in fact there are many significant points of overlap between the arts and tourism. Take for example the case of Solon, one of the wisest of the Ancient Greeks, who is said to be both the first theorist and the first tourist. "The Greeks," Wlad Godzich explains,"designated certain individuals to act as legates on certain formal occasions in other city states or in matters of considerable political importance. These individuals bore the title of theoros and collectively constituted a theoria. They were summoned on special occasions to attest the occurrence of some event, to witness its happenstance, and to then verbally certify its having taken place" (Godzich). Others could see and make claims, but these would have merely the status of "perceptions"; only the report of the theoria provided certainty, certifying the attested event such that it could be treated as fact. "What it certified as having been seen could become the object of public discourse." Travel was an essential element of archaic theoria. Herodotus noted that theoria was the reason for Solon's visit to the ruler of Lydia. "Originally theoria meant seeing the sights, seeing for yourself, and getting a worldview," E. V. Walter comments. "The first theorists were 'tourists'--the wise men who traveled to inspect the obvious world. Solon, the Greek sage whose political reforms around 590 B.C. renewed the city of Athens, is the first 'theorist' in Western history" (Walter). This theoria "did not mean the kind of vision that is restricted to the sense of sight. The term implied a complex but organic mode of active observation--a perceptual system that included asking questions, listening to stories and local myths, and feeling as well as hearing and seeing. It encouraged an open reception to every kind of emotional, cognitive, symbolic, imaginative, and sensory experience." Nor was the travel of a theoros always a response; it could also be a probe. The motive for Solon's visit to Lydia, where he went "to see what could be seen," was "curiosity": "and it was just this great gift of curiosity, and the desire to see all the wonderful things--pyramids, inundations, and so forth--that were to be seen that enabled the Ionians to pick up and turn to their own use such scraps of knowledge as they could come by among the barbarians"(Burnet). Vico studies.. Finnegan's Wake's structure is said to be based on a study of Vico http://www.connix.com/~gapinton/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "John M. Bennett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 9:28 AM Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: JMB on the walls of Plaza Vico > AH!: "fuming coag dulation"! > > Also, "Foambook" is the title of an (unpublished) book of mine... > > Onfoam, > John > > At 07:50 AM 3/8/02 -0800, you wrote: > > > >JMB on the walls of Plaza Vico > > > > > > > >Wunderlost > > > >Theoros w/ Theorbos rum age thru the temple calen dar > >Al His slam pome woke like an Arch enboldo of Avian particle s > >Vico Vico the yawn d jawbown ass of jeweled Nitre N Gales > >frost on the jellied Hume curves slow ly wide pouring the > >C of Broken Meat Candles my shoe boat bobs on sonic loi Ns > >Segmented do me Ray grotto where the gestural tongue hides > >gather like fat Exxes goat-skinned figeurs of ontic plac ent rails > >"Daedalus made crossword puzzles out of marble and frozen wine" > > > >VaterStelae > > > >Bro Ken Staves piled in lieu pine howls of butter'd Claus trowels > >un titled tea smirch recto-verso stitch face'd fenest Irrations > >or was the propulsion of gravel eye-beads laking tall the beans > >of giants word-stalk be hemmed froth fuming coag dulation slices > >of cacophonic indices for the snark was a blue jum yew know > >a grew jem in snow corrugium le doe apparently crytographer > >und hoo butta who could hue the hewn so heavily high it floats > >it flew wing ed out the synopticon foambook knotosuction's Li Po > > __________________________________________ > Dr. John M. Bennett > Curator, Avant Writing Collection > Rare Books & Manuscripts Library > The Ohio State University Libraries > 1858 Neil Av Mall > Columbus, OH 43210 USA > > (614) 292-8114 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ___________________________________________ > >
