Friday, April 18, 2014

Method Working on Chance Which Was Born From Chance

X. is thus engaged in attempting to revisit a seven-years-past encounter with a pair of strangers on a road, in mind and in text, thru the transformative methods of symbolism--

and so X. reads, in a study of the Greek origins of the literary sense of symbolism, that symbolism (in part) developed from divinatory traditions, this study emphasizing especially the species of divination concerning "symbols of the road," understood through Aeschylus to mean a chance meeting with a stranger (as well, "Xenophon..confirms the the sense of symbol as ominous chance meeting"). So too, "...these divine signs are coincidental meetings with people."

Therefore we observe, so--that a blind clawing at symbolism in the hope of expanding/remolding a chance encounter is a blind clawing at a methodology whose origins lie in part in the divine/demonic significance attributed to the chance encounter (on the road, the road--).

*Relevant text being StruckBirth of the Symbol

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