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                                              September 6-20, 2006
                                                                     
One reason word-play works          Another reason: playing with the        
is that similar sounding            sounds of words might be a tool for     
words often have a related          getting at the way language works.      
derivation and meaning.                                                     
                                                Make the reader conscious of
                                                connotation, rather than use    
                                                it to manipulate.               


For that first function,            For the second function
the disconnects between             the disconnects are the
sound and meaning are               core of the subject.
points of failure...



   etymology
   as a tool
   to illuminate
   meaning.

     The true structure of
     ideas presumed to follow
     the history of meanings;
     tracking changes in meanings... 





   Someone mentioned in
   passing (in a review               NO_D
   in "The Wire"), Sun
   Ra's "bullshit etymologies".

   Sun Ra frequently plays with
   language in odd ways, for
   example he insisted that the
   the bible was not the good
   book, but the "code book".
                                       good = god = code  (cod?)
      He claims to have
      perceived hidden            Or something.
      meanings, using his
      study of ancient              "I'm talking about
      literatures and so             equations."
      on... but he often
      seems to be working       [ref]
      with puns rather
      than any established
      academic etymology.       The point then is not that what Sun
                                Ra said is bullshit, exactly, but
                                that the scholarship he claims to
                                support it with isn't really there.

                                     If every connection he made could
                                     be looked up in the Oxford English
                                     Dictionary, would it make his
                                     ideas any better?



   "Omni relates to all, not just one, not
   Uni. You gotta get past oneness, at least
   get to twoness. The[n] you get attuned the
   right way, 'cos you got the at-two-en-ment"
   (Shore 1980: 48).

   "The one is alright, but I like the
   attunement because it is of the atwo-en-ment"
   (Fiofori 1970a: 17).

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