On Mar 7, 2008, at 8:12 PM, David Tayler wrote: > A name in a sense is a term, and as a term it is subject to what Ezra > Pound artfully referred to as the"reader implied by the language".
Oh Gawd: shades of Marshal McLuhan...??? ;-) > If we quote Shakespeare's famous line > A rose by any other name would smell as sweet From petals on a wet, black bough to a rose by any other name, all with a stroke of a pen! I think Pound would have liked that. > The collective unconcious still interprets the extra syllable in > lutenist as reasonable, even if the internal diminutive meaning is > lost, > but the next generation will, I suspect, find it archaic. My theory, one that I've never heard reflected anywhere anytime, is that the present can give us more insight into the past than vice- versa. And therefore also into the future...which means that no solutions will ever be found, I've no idea why. dr [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
