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From: "Keith McMullen" <keithsz@concentric.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 10:10 AM
Subject: Enchanting, Log Dammit
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> "Finally, and above all, a great writer is always a great enchanter, and
it
> is here that we come to the really exciting part when we try to grasp the
> individual magic of his genius and to study the style, the imagery, the
> pattern of his novels or poems."
>
> --from 'Good Writers and Good Readers' in _Lectures on Literature_ by
> VN
>
> "And every now and then the passenger's roving eyes paused for a moment as
> he listened inwardly to a nether itch, which he supposed to be (correctly,
> thank Log) only a minor irritation of the epithelium."
>
> --_Ada_, p. 33.
>
> 'Logos' from OED:
>
> [Gr. 'logos' word, speech, discourse, reason, f. 'log-,' ablaut-variant
of
> 'leg-' in 'leg-ein-' to say.]
>
> A term used by Greek (esp. Hellenistic and Neo-Platonist) philosophers
> in certain metaphysical and theological applications developed from one or
> both of its ordinary senses 'reason' and 'word'; also adopted in three
> passages of the Johannine writings of the N.T. (where the English versions
> render it by 'Word') as a designation of Jesus Christ; hence employed by
> Christian theologians, esp. those who were versed in Greek philosophy, as
a
> title of the Second Person of the Trinity. By mod. writers the Gr. word is
> used untranslated in historical expositions of ancient philosophical
> speculation, and in discussions of the doctrine of the Trinity in its
> philosophical aspects.
>
> 'leg-'
>
> "'To collect,' with derivatives meaning 'to speak.' (1) Perhaps Germanic
> *lekjaz,* enchanter, one who speaks magic words, [...]"
>
> --_The American Heritage Dictionary_, 'Indo-European Roots'
>
>
>
>
From: "Keith McMullen" <keithsz@concentric.net>
To: <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 10:10 AM
Subject: Enchanting, Log Dammit
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (39
lines) ------------------
> "Finally, and above all, a great writer is always a great enchanter, and
it
> is here that we come to the really exciting part when we try to grasp the
> individual magic of his genius and to study the style, the imagery, the
> pattern of his novels or poems."
>
> --from 'Good Writers and Good Readers' in _Lectures on Literature_ by
> VN
>
> "And every now and then the passenger's roving eyes paused for a moment as
> he listened inwardly to a nether itch, which he supposed to be (correctly,
> thank Log) only a minor irritation of the epithelium."
>
> --_Ada_, p. 33.
>
> 'Logos' from OED:
>
> [Gr. 'logos' word, speech, discourse, reason, f. 'log-,' ablaut-variant
of
> 'leg-' in 'leg-ein-' to say.]
>
> A term used by Greek (esp. Hellenistic and Neo-Platonist) philosophers
> in certain metaphysical and theological applications developed from one or
> both of its ordinary senses 'reason' and 'word'; also adopted in three
> passages of the Johannine writings of the N.T. (where the English versions
> render it by 'Word') as a designation of Jesus Christ; hence employed by
> Christian theologians, esp. those who were versed in Greek philosophy, as
a
> title of the Second Person of the Trinity. By mod. writers the Gr. word is
> used untranslated in historical expositions of ancient philosophical
> speculation, and in discussions of the doctrine of the Trinity in its
> philosophical aspects.
>
> 'leg-'
>
> "'To collect,' with derivatives meaning 'to speak.' (1) Perhaps Germanic
> *lekjaz,* enchanter, one who speaks magic words, [...]"
>
> --_The American Heritage Dictionary_, 'Indo-European Roots'
>
>
>
>