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The poem is neat and your explication brings to mind a recurrent thought when I encounter the core idea of "the thought is completed in the word." I (think I) know what LSV and Mandelshtam are saying, but I always have this thought that the thought is not yet completed, not in so far as it is taken up, perhaps transformed, and comes back again at a later time, in some new, albeit related, form, to begin that side of the cycle over again. mike On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Tony Whitson <twhitson@udel.edu> wrote: > I clipped the wrong line from Martin's post in that last message. I meant > the Dickinson verse in reponse to the line that now appears below from > Martin. > > In Dickinson's verse, what's not timeless is not merely the meaning that a > word does as a lexical unit in a language (i.e., in the philological sense), > but even in a specific utterance the word spoken continues meaning, as it > continues living, non-timelessly. > > > On Sun, 1 May 2011, Tony Whitson wrote: > > On Tue, 26 Apr 2011, Martin Packer wrote: >> > > For LSV word-meaning is not timeless. It changes over time; he didn't >> > study philology for nothing! > > > A word is dead >> When it is said >> Some say. >> I say it just >> Begins to live >> That day. >> >> --Emily Dickinson >> >> I find it helpful to think of meaning as something that words do -- not >> something they contain, convey, etc. >> >> > Tony Whitson > UD School of Education > NEWARK DE 19716 > > twhitson@udel.edu > _______________________________ > > "those who fail to reread > are obliged to read the same story everywhere" > -- Roland Barthes, S/Z (1970) > __________________________________________ > _____ > xmca mailing list > xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca > __________________________________________ _____ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca