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| girlzilla |
| Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 3:51 am |
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| I realize there's TONS of stuff packed within the text that I have not even begun to consider. I raced through and latched onto things that struck me immediately. Anyway, does anyone have ideas about personal identity in this text? Clearly, it's rampant, but I'm curious about what others are thinking. TRuST is only missing a U... |
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| benedict |
| Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 2:35 pm |
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girlzilla wrote: TRuST is only missing a U...
that occurred to me as well over the weekend! and welcome to unspace. |
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| girlzilla |
| Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2007 5:49 am |
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| Yay! Then maybe we can put our Inter-heads together and come up with something. Thanks for the welcome! |
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| straydan |
| Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 9:01 am |
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Trey Fidorous is a corruption of Tryphiodorus. Tryphiodorus wrote the Odyssey that told the story of Ulysses, which is very interesting in many ways, but a key trick it contains is that it is a Lipogram. Meaning the first book excluded the letter alpha, completely. The second contained no betas. And so on.
Thus, are there lipogrammatic elements in The Raw Shark Texts? Of which the title TRST might be one? Of course, it doesn't have to be TRUST. Could be TRYST.
Funnily enough the first chapter title, A Relic of Something Nine-tenths Collapsed, if you take the capital letters gives ARSNC. Missing E and I perhaps? I know, I know, imagination running wild ...
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| heartbreak |
| Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 3:10 am |
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straydan wrote: Trey Fidorous is a corruption of Tryphiodorus. Tryphiodorus wrote the Odyssey that told the story of Ulysses, which is very interesting in many ways, but a key trick it contains is that it is a Lipogram. Meaning the first book excluded the letter alpha, completely. The second contained no betas. And so on.
Interesting find. Definitely a link with the names. Allthough, I was allways under the impression that Homer wrote the Odyssey. |
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| benedict |
| Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 3:39 am |
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from wikipedia: Tryphiodorus (correctly but less commonly Triphiodorus), fl. 3rd or 4th century, was an epic poet native to Egypt. His only surviving work is The Capture of Troy, in 691 verses. Other recorded titles include Marathoniaca and The Story of Hippodamea.
His style is partway between that of Nonnus and Quintus Smyrnaeus. |
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