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"Michael G. Koopman" <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 1 Feb 1995 15:46:30 -0500
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You seem to get copy right for contemplar rating the structuralist's
deacon'ing tower of babble paragraph, with each new paragraph a new
idea.  As even in comic strips and comic books, especially some comic
books, roots of a larger puzzle might require just such luc'ng charms
to address, serious-eyes'ing cliff hang-ups, or has this never been
noted by you previously?  What bluff did you live on?  Blind man's?
Let's please discuss certain comic books in addressing recurrent
context relevant to current majorities.  This would be my pleasure.

> If Twain was to overlay one use on the other, it might be best to
> consider the print layout from a structuralist's template in see what
> eyes are meant to see on these two pages of original manuscript rather
> than to expect this relationship is one which applies across contexts
> in any other form.

Clemens life as skipjack is unlikely to have left him without an eye
for embargoed cargoed holds, and other WWF wrestling twists.  Or would
you think otherwise?  Consider the calvalcade of books his publisher
provided to bankers, lawyers and Chief Joe's people.

> Most notable to me is the relationship of this Lilliputian canon King
> figure with the Goethe Satan character.  Perhaps this swings from your
> beams in a different manner when you take context, rather than
> CD-Rom'ing the whole world over hits, as a better criterion for
> analogy?

In all modesty this is literal criticism, what Clemens seems to be
concerned with, albeit his knack for real life is undoubtably a piece
of his success both with his publisher and audience, alike.  The same
symbol, an eye gesture, occuring in two seperate contexts need not,
or, for that matter, is unlikely to imply the same Piercian logical
encyclopediac vision, star gazers.  Perhaps the crystal ball is too
thick with milk sugar for anything but Auntie Em to be envisioned?

Seems to me a relationship between a giant king, therefore Lilliputia,
golden geese and mother goose/gander in white flocks and a meet the
Goethe of Satan characters performing the same eye gesture relates
these characters, within their respective "realms" or contexts, more
than it requires that this gesture connotes the same meaning.  In
this, although your CD rom'ing link and log methods does find
similarity, story context is a stronger piece of interpretation than
re-use of bad habits by an author.

How might you present a dissent which implies Twain operates on a
strict lambda calculi for sentence structure and phrases -- especially
considering his devotion to using irregular and un-grammatical bits
and pieces of conversational dialogue?  Should like to see an informed
bit on how it might be that his writing was all divinely inspired and
therefore must be considered only under natural born mid-west versions
of southern drawls to be truly understood as words of inspiration from
our Creator to those chosen few so born in U.S. after european
invasion, or some such angelic debutante bellowings earth's crust.

Mike Koopman

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