SC - Re: sca-cooks Creativity
Mark Schuldenfrei
schuldy at abel.MATH.HARVARD.EDU
Fri Apr 18 12:11:37 PDT 1997
I'd written:
>Robin Vinehall wrote:
> We are, after all, supposed to be creatively anachronistic.
>
>"I don theen that phrase meens wha' you theen it meens".
About which I was told, by Donna White:
Perhaps we are all allowed our own interpretation. Whatdya theen abot
tht?
Sure. But, let us do so in an informed way.
anach.ro.nism
[prob. fr. MGk anachronismos, fr. anachronizesthai to be an
anachro]nism, fr. LGk anachronizein to be late, fr. Gk ana- +
chronos time 1: an error in chronology; esp : a chronological
misplacing of persons, events, objects, or customs in regard to each
other 2: a person or a thing that is chronologically out of place -
anachronistic aj
We combine items that were from separate times and places, that would
otherwise be anachronistic. Like my marriage between a 1384 Savoyard and a
late 16th century Italian...
It doesn't mean to just lay down the boogie from anywhere and anytime and
call it period. Does it?
Tibor
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