tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424364424049242300.post8496300470528905881..comments2023-06-21T18:53:11.897+10:00Comments on Pykk: in which we arrive at the kind of ecstasy described by ProustUmbagollahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14556344092820711893noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424364424049242300.post-87238232606576276312014-10-01T17:40:26.883+10:002014-10-01T17:40:26.883+10:00I keep reminding myself that I haven't describ...I keep reminding myself that I haven't described the second reason why Walter Murdoch used the word "fair" (after writing "Here the word “fair” has two meanings" in a post about a fortnight ago) but other ideas get into me before I can circle back. <br /><br />If you ever want to see an absolutely whiplash transition between two subjects, there's a footnote at the end of Thomas de Quincey's <i>Autobiographic Sketches</i> in which he switches from the history of the word "bluestocking," ("Dr. Bisset (in his <i>Life of Burke</i>) traces it idly to a sobriquet imposed by Mrs. Montagu ...") to a description of forks. "Something of the same kind has happened in the history of silver forks." Followed by proof that the two things overlap perfectly. Umbagollahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14556344092820711893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424364424049242300.post-23138562187254626702014-10-01T10:09:10.611+10:002014-10-01T10:09:10.611+10:00This is good, really good, this series of posts, t...This is good, really good, this series of posts, turning the cathedral on the crab's back into Powys' self on the factory wall. All this about the uses of memory is good stuff. The weight of the memory is transformed into new cathedrals, as it were.scott g.f.baileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05726743149139510832noreply@blogger.com