Watts, presentiments, eponyms

Jeff Wilson · 25 Feb 2002, 00:31 · from urth-v0202.mbox · original

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From: Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com>
Subject: (urth) Watts, presentiments, eponyms
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 18:31:33 -0600
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>      From:=20
>           maa32 <maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu>

>                                         Isaac Watts Psalm 90

> It also explains the double=20
> limbed animals that are exactly like the animals of Urth.

	I am still hopeful that Blue and Green turn out to be Urth and Lune in
_Planet Of The Apes_ fashion, though perhaps in an era =3Dbefore=3D the
Whorl left.=20

> Now, are the eponyms those white statues that move around the House Absol=
ute=20
> in Claw of the Conciliator? In In Green's Jungles, Regalio seems to place=
 some=20
> importance on eponyms when he first goes back to Urth, and I'm trying to=20
> figure out that scene now in a way that will justify its temporal removal=
 from=20
> the present of the text. An eponym is also a word that comes from someone=
's=20
> name, like sandwiches or johns/crappers (according to urban legend, anywa=
y). I=20
> was trying to figure out what eponym might help solve that scene.  Regali=
o=20
> says his real name is Roger, but that means very little to me.  Roger?  A=
ny=20
> famous eponyms associated with that?

	Roger is an acknowledgment in radio chatter, which may be thought of as
astronaut talk.=20
	Regalio's eponyms could conceivably be regale, to entertain by story
telling, potentially a projection of the author into the text, and
regalia, which usually means an official dressy costume, but can mean
the symbols and emblems, and insgnia displayed on such a costume, making
an meta-meta-referential symbolism that could lead to almost any meaning
remotely pertinent to the text.

--=20
Jeff Wilson
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