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On 6/11/06 02:42, "Steven" <mcquaryq@COMCAST.NET> wrote:
> Stout-hearted, mayhap? Also consider that if you sail across the Atlantic,
> crawl through the Panamanian hills to a crest spanning the isthmus, you would
> be facing west and it would be the Pacific that your eagle eye would fall on.
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> On Nov 5, 2006, at 10:16 AM, jansymello wrote:
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>> He wrote about "stout Cortez" staring at the Pacific Ocen from a peak in
>> Darien.Perhaps Cortez was as stout as Shade, but it was Balboa who came
>> across the Pacific Ocean.
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>> [Certain scholars argue that Keats choose Cortez to create a juxtaposition
>> to Chapman's translation of Homer, who only delights him when Chapman's
>> translation makes his Odyssey available to him. Cortez conquered Mexico and
>> this may brings to our minds the Aztecs, whose civilization could be compared
>> with the ancient Greek culture. Other studious ask why, other than the rhyme
>> scheme, did Keats select Darien, an area of Panama settled by the Scots in
>> the seventeenth century...]
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> Steven
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> Not everyone knows (or needs to know) that to reach the Pacific from the
> Atlantic you must counter-intuitively head WESTward along the Panama Canal. PF
> and Life-Itself are like that damned twisted strip of infested jungle --
> which reminds me to wish all Listers a MERRY ISTHMUS. (Kindly leave the stage
> Ed)
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> Stout-hearted, mayhap? Also consider that if you sail across the Atlantic,
> crawl through the Panamanian hills to a crest spanning the isthmus, you would
> be facing west and it would be the Pacific that your eagle eye would fall on.
>
>
> On Nov 5, 2006, at 10:16 AM, jansymello wrote:
>
>> He wrote about "stout Cortez" staring at the Pacific Ocen from a peak in
>> Darien.Perhaps Cortez was as stout as Shade, but it was Balboa who came
>> across the Pacific Ocean.
>>
>> [Certain scholars argue that Keats choose Cortez to create a juxtaposition
>> to Chapman's translation of Homer, who only delights him when Chapman's
>> translation makes his Odyssey available to him. Cortez conquered Mexico and
>> this may brings to our minds the Aztecs, whose civilization could be compared
>> with the ancient Greek culture. Other studious ask why, other than the rhyme
>> scheme, did Keats select Darien, an area of Panama settled by the Scots in
>> the seventeenth century...]
>
>
> Steven
>
> Not everyone knows (or needs to know) that to reach the Pacific from the
> Atlantic you must counter-intuitively head WESTward along the Panama Canal. PF
> and Life-Itself are like that damned twisted strip of infested jungle --
> which reminds me to wish all Listers a MERRY ISTHMUS. (Kindly leave the stage
> Ed)
>
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>
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