Re: OT: White Goddess
| From: | David Peterson <digitalscream@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, April 9, 2001, 4:31 |
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In a message dated 4/8/01 5:09:34 PM, yl112@CORNELL.EDU writes:
<< I'm reading Robert Graves' _The White Goddess_ right now and I have to
ask, before I go crazy, as far as historical/anthropological/linguistic
"fact" is he on crack, or am I a dull uneducated unpoetic soul (always
possible :-p), or are there big gaping holes of logic? I think I've
never seen the words "obviously" or "evidently" or "of course," etc. so
badly abused in all my life. OTOH maybe I've been a math major too long,
and the *poetry* of the work is quite beautiful and fascinating. But
what passes for logic in the book is just eluding me (especially the
word-connections, reconstructions, etc.). Anyone? Anyone meep? >>
Well, it is Robert Graves, not real literature. What'd you expect?
-David
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