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OP But if you had a mind like that of Ferdinand de Saussure, would you worry much about whether or not you had a royal ancestor?
Each of us may be a descendant of a queen or king (by whatever name) of something.
An interesting article. Two things: Vladimir Nabokov writes in his memoir Speak, Memory about his synesthesia where he associates different letters with colors; Saussure also left MSS behind in which he found numerous anagrammatic patterns in Latin poetry. (There is a book about the latter translated in '79 called Words Upon Words: the Anagrams of Ferdinand de Saussure by Jean Starobinski.)
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
Interesting , but quite a long and not too easy read.
Structuralist and poststructuralist French philosophy
has put a heavy mark on postmodern and actual visual arts. Making it all so often unnecessarily obscure.
On colors:
Quote:"Photism, a word James himself was the first to use in English, had been a popular subject in German and French psychological research since the start of the 1880s. None of the studies mentions the poem �Voyelles�, written in 1871�2 by the young Rimbaud, even though these psychologists were scholar-scientists who kept up with literature."
Vowels by Rimbaud.
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