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Re: Alfin, Shade
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Matt Roth: The sun and star synthesis may confirm a double nature in a slightly different way. Shade may be saying that two things we call by different names (sun and star) are actually the same thing (both are really stars). As Shade trims off his dead outer layer of skin, he reveals both the new skin/self beneath and the moons of his cuticles.
JM: You are right.... this is a very poetic interpretation hidden under the wolf-skin.
Alexey: As to King Alfin, I think B. Boyd in his book links him in to Alphina, the youngest of Judge Goldsworth's four daughters.
JM: If King Alfin is related to Alphina, then the indication must lead us somewhere else, perhaps to "first born" (alpha) or to "infinity" ( "Alf" - as used in the original "A Thousand nights and One night"). Unfortunately I tend to grow attached to one interpretation ( river Alph, and something vaguely related to Hamlet, Oedipous and bad uncles),so I find myself prejudiced against the others*...
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* Someone sent me a message with the image of an old lady typing away in her laptop with a warning about recent researches which show that laptops have been sucking up grannies into cyberspace.
It was sent in German: V O R S I C H T !!!!!! In letzter Zeit wurden vermehrt Personen "über 40" plötzlich vom PC verschluckt! Im nachhinein hat man festgestellt, dass sie die
Tasten "ALT" und "ENTFERNEN" gleichzeitig gedrückt haben!
It means that after turning 40 (how kind) one should never press ALT ( meaning OLD) and "Entgernen" (meaning DELETE). I thought the word for Delete, in German, was so curious because it suggests "alienation, setting at a distance, rremoving." When I checked in the google I discovered that it's been distinguished by Heidegger from "Abstand". "Delete" now would correspond to the English "Deseverance" (
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JM: You are right.... this is a very poetic interpretation hidden under the wolf-skin.
Alexey: As to King Alfin, I think B. Boyd in his book links him in to Alphina, the youngest of Judge Goldsworth's four daughters.
JM: If King Alfin is related to Alphina, then the indication must lead us somewhere else, perhaps to "first born" (alpha) or to "infinity" ( "Alf" - as used in the original "A Thousand nights and One night"). Unfortunately I tend to grow attached to one interpretation ( river Alph, and something vaguely related to Hamlet, Oedipous and bad uncles),so I find myself prejudiced against the others*...
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* Someone sent me a message with the image of an old lady typing away in her laptop with a warning about recent researches which show that laptops have been sucking up grannies into cyberspace.
It was sent in German: V O R S I C H T !!!!!! In letzter Zeit wurden vermehrt Personen "über 40" plötzlich vom PC verschluckt! Im nachhinein hat man festgestellt, dass sie die
Tasten "ALT" und "ENTFERNEN" gleichzeitig gedrückt haben!
It means that after turning 40 (how kind) one should never press ALT ( meaning OLD) and "Entgernen" (meaning DELETE). I thought the word for Delete, in German, was so curious because it suggests "alienation, setting at a distance, rremoving." When I checked in the google I discovered that it's been distinguished by Heidegger from "Abstand". "Delete" now would correspond to the English "Deseverance" (
Being and time: - Resultado da Pesquisa de livros do Google, Martin Heidegger, Martin Heidegger - 1978 -
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