dmb,
Are you going through my posts looking for errors? I can save you the trouble
and admit to making lots of mistakes.
Marsha
On Sep 29, 2010, at 10:06 AM, MarshaV wrote:
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> Please not the corrected posted a few hours later.
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> On Sep 27, 2010, at 11:53 AM, MarshaV wrote:
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>> I've been corrected. It is Percival: pure fool (Fal Parsi.)
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On Sep 29, 2010, at 9:48 AM, david buchanan wrote:
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> Marsha "cannot stop thinking about Percival: poor fool (Fal Parsi.)"
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> dmb says:
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> Poor fool? I knew that was wrong, so I looked it up. "Wagner's spelling of
> Parsifal instead of the Parzival he had used up to 1877 is informed by an
> erroneous etymology of the name Percival deriving it from a supposedly Arabic
> origin, Fal Parsi meaning "pure fool"."
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> As the legend usually goes, it is Parzival who finds the holy grail. He is an
> archetype known as the wise fool, meaning he knows what to do by instinct.
> According to the head of the religious studies department at my uni, his name
> means "pierce the valley". Upon hearing this, I scratched my head and asked,
> "pierce the valley? What the heck is that supposed to mean?" He travels
> between the extremes on either side, she explained, gesturing the shapes of
> mountains on either side of the valley, and he shoots right through by taking
> the middle way.
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> Looks like you've been fooled about fools by a fool. There's a certain purity
> in that.
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