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By sheer ineptness I wrote: "The reminder to the Nab-L participants about the uploading of new items is, for me, an important initiative (inspite of the addition of "View NSJ Ada Annotations")." giving the wrong impression, by my parenthetic "inspite of," that I daringly depreciated our EDS initiative and even the special opportunity to find, whenever we get a N-L message, the added "View NSJ..." Sorry, folks. I only meant that it would be an added bonus!
Alexey Sklyarenko: ... "Ridebis Semper (you'll be laughing forever) was VN's Latin penname (his 1940 self-parody Zud was signed Ridebis Semper). Mascodagama's performance reminds one of "Ursus rursus" and "Chaos Vanquished," the interludes written by Ursus and performed by him, Gwynplaine, Dea (a blind girl) and the tame wolf Homo in "The Laughing Man" (Ch. IX: "Absurdities Which Folks Without Taste call Poetry")...
JM: Wonderful links, thanks again for this additional tidbit about VN's "ridebis semper" pen-name, and its context and setting.
btw: I take the opportunity to add a comment on another posting of mine, where I meant to refer to Don Juan, Don Giovanni in Italian, by a short "mille e tre."
I found out that, besides the Mozartian lines, there was a reference to George Bernard Shaw. To avoid further mistakes of expression, I'll copy here the information extracted directly from a site about Maths and Filosophy ( I compressed the data):
"Peter Marton in his paper, 'Achilles versus the Tortoise: The Battle over Modus Ponens'* uses ...'Mille e tre'.. Mille e tre is Italian for 1003 (one thousand and three). It was specifically used in George Bernard Shaw's play 'Man and Superman' in context to Achilles.The British upperclass with their Oxford accents do not pronounce the word 'military' as 'mill ee tary' with the vowels pronounced in the long drawn-out way, but say it exactly like 'mille e tre' with the vowels pronounced short and clipped! You have to say it aloud and or ask any brit to say the word military! So since Achilles was a mille e tre man, ---GBS and now Peter Marton gave Achilles that name to go with A Kill-Ease!... Mille e tre ...is the number of women Don Giovanni (of Mozart) 'has conquered' in Spain. The others: 640 in Italy, 231 in Germany, 100 in France, and 91 in Turkey. The part the figure 1003 is mentioned is one of the most sarcastic moments of the opera."
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* Lacan uses the model of Achilles and Briseida (a slave-girl, or the tortoise...) representing infinite regress to explain how, according to his theory, men and women can never ever really meet in a (symbolic, ie, a verbalizable) sexual embrace...
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Alexey Sklyarenko: ... "Ridebis Semper (you'll be laughing forever) was VN's Latin penname (his 1940 self-parody Zud was signed Ridebis Semper). Mascodagama's performance reminds one of "Ursus rursus" and "Chaos Vanquished," the interludes written by Ursus and performed by him, Gwynplaine, Dea (a blind girl) and the tame wolf Homo in "The Laughing Man" (Ch. IX: "Absurdities Which Folks Without Taste call Poetry")...
JM: Wonderful links, thanks again for this additional tidbit about VN's "ridebis semper" pen-name, and its context and setting.
btw: I take the opportunity to add a comment on another posting of mine, where I meant to refer to Don Juan, Don Giovanni in Italian, by a short "mille e tre."
I found out that, besides the Mozartian lines, there was a reference to George Bernard Shaw. To avoid further mistakes of expression, I'll copy here the information extracted directly from a site about Maths and Filosophy ( I compressed the data):
"Peter Marton in his paper, 'Achilles versus the Tortoise: The Battle over Modus Ponens'* uses ...'Mille e tre'.. Mille e tre is Italian for 1003 (one thousand and three). It was specifically used in George Bernard Shaw's play 'Man and Superman' in context to Achilles.The British upperclass with their Oxford accents do not pronounce the word 'military' as 'mill ee tary' with the vowels pronounced in the long drawn-out way, but say it exactly like 'mille e tre' with the vowels pronounced short and clipped! You have to say it aloud and or ask any brit to say the word military! So since Achilles was a mille e tre man, ---GBS and now Peter Marton gave Achilles that name to go with A Kill-Ease!... Mille e tre ...is the number of women Don Giovanni (of Mozart) 'has conquered' in Spain. The others: 640 in Italy, 231 in Germany, 100 in France, and 91 in Turkey. The part the figure 1003 is mentioned is one of the most sarcastic moments of the opera."
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* Lacan uses the model of Achilles and Briseida (a slave-girl, or the tortoise...) representing infinite regress to explain how, according to his theory, men and women can never ever really meet in a (symbolic, ie, a verbalizable) sexual embrace...
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