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...