tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post5690009457413258164..comments2024-03-10T20:46:19.274-04:00Comments on In the Middle: “Free and Open at Eyther Ende,” or Stop Me If You've Heard This One BeforeCord J. Whitakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06224143153295429986noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-6259027597707112542007-10-30T23:26:00.000-04:002007-10-30T23:26:00.000-04:00BLB: oh, that's good. Thanks a lot, and thanks for...BLB: oh, that's good. Thanks a lot, and thanks for remembering the post, and I hope the earthquake doesn't shake you up.Karl Steelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03353370018006849747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-17397488214440023932007-10-30T22:34:00.000-04:002007-10-30T22:34:00.000-04:00K,I just noticed an interesting verbal echo:Priore...K,<BR/><BR/>I just noticed an interesting verbal echo:<BR/><BR/>Prioress' tale<BR/><BR/>For it was free and open at eyther ende<BR/>VII.494<BR/><BR/>Pardoner's tale<BR/><BR/>O wombe! O bely! O stinkinge cod,<BR/>Fulfilled of donge and of corrupcioun!<BR/>At either ende of thee foul is the soun.<BR/>VI.533-535<BR/><BR/>"Either" way, perhaps you got this one already since it's been months since this post, but I thought I'd throw it in just to make sure. I'm currently prepping my own Prioress class.<BR/><BR/>Yours in recent Phdness,<BR/><BR/>-BLBAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-71058970601337493672007-09-21T19:35:00.000-04:002007-09-21T19:35:00.000-04:00I'm waaaaayyyy behind on blogs, so I just wanted t...I'm waaaaayyyy behind on blogs, so I just wanted to pop in here and say congratulations, Karl! And also: *fantastic* reading of this tale!Dr. Viragohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03960384082670286328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-69341756938801432952007-09-15T13:23:00.000-04:002007-09-15T13:23:00.000-04:00KARL: another CONGRATULATIONS! A bit belated, so f...KARL: another CONGRATULATIONS! A bit belated, so forgive me. Champagne all around. No, martinis. No, limoncellatinis. Yes, that's it, with an alligator tooth on the rim. No, you wouldn't like that. Evian cocktails! That's it! With a sidecar of absinthe. Now we're set.Eileen Joyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13756965845120441308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-23019906995432230592007-09-14T10:01:00.000-04:002007-09-14T10:01:00.000-04:00I think "acellis" means armpits. See Du Cange, s.v...I think "acellis" means armpits. See Du Cange, s.v. ascella.Nicola Masciandarohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01279665722551517693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-46809914753438335862007-09-14T09:35:00.000-04:002007-09-14T09:35:00.000-04:00A couple of thoughts on this rich gastrointestinal...A couple of thoughts on this rich gastrointestinal gloss. <BR/><BR/>Though the Jews do not eat or cook the boy they dispose of him as if he had been eaten, suggesting the possibility that his body is symbolically something like undigested, indigestible food, a body that cannot be incorporated within another body.<BR/><BR/>Which mirrors the ghetto, Jewry as a body within the Christian body. As the geography suggests, the Jewish community is a body within the Christian body, existing within it even in transplanted or exiled form in Asia, which proves an essential, dependent relation, the dialectical contingency of Christianity upon Judaism (as other, Augustine's witness, etc.)<BR/><BR/>Ghetto as <I>cloaca</I>. Works both with social body models and discourses of urban pollution.<BR/><BR/>All of which could be taken in the direction of understanding the Prioress along the arc between kitsch as denial of shit and the sacred as encounter with evil.<BR/><BR/>“Kitsch is the absolute denial of shit, in both the literal and the figurative senses of the word; kitsch excludes everything from its purview which is essentially unacceptable in human existence” (Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being) <BR/><BR/>“It is, in fact, because evil is supremely the crucial experience of the sacred that the threat of a dissolution of the bond between man and the sacred makes us most intensely aware of man’s dependence on the powers of the sacred” (Paul Ricoeur, Symbolism of Evil, p. 6)Nicola Masciandarohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01279665722551517693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-37022956895588523302007-09-14T00:35:00.000-04:002007-09-14T00:35:00.000-04:00Congratulations Karl. I hope the academy realizes ...Congratulations Karl. I hope the academy realizes how lucky it is to have you.<BR/><BR/>MOR.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-53129520839184259982007-09-13T22:05:00.000-04:002007-09-13T22:05:00.000-04:00This will sound mostly like an echo, but congratul...This will sound mostly like an echo, but congratulations, Karl. Glad to see such a landmark finally achieved, and I look forward to seeing where you go from here.bwhawkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17909010609907741198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-30661637838410561852007-09-13T18:24:00.000-04:002007-09-13T18:24:00.000-04:00Congratulations Karl! I know it must be a relief...Congratulations Karl! I know it must be a relief to have the defense and everything done. <BR/><BR/>Isn't the liminality of those in-between moments of the grad-school thing weird? I'm in one myself -- post-orals, pre-MPhil (ah bureaucracy), and not quite ready to think of myself as ABD. Very strange. Though I'm heartened, somehow, to see that this isn't the last time I'll find myself "in the middle." <BR/><BR/>Celebration must ensue! :-D I look forward to shaking the hand of a newly minted Doctor of Philosophy, and living proof there's light at the end of the proverbial tunnel here at good old CU.Mary Kate Hurleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14892991966276345782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-33349087308795511612007-09-13T17:55:00.000-04:002007-09-13T17:55:00.000-04:00Yay! And I think most hiring committees and frien...Yay! And I think most hiring committees and friends consider you done when the things is signed, accepted, and defended ... ceremonies are non-obligatory!<BR/><BR/>And I haven't read the post carefully (marking first essays by tomorrow!), but this comes up in Pliny's letter to Trajan LXX or LXXI, I think, kinda, in reference to the Christians.Another Damned Medievalisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05231085915472400163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-62621557351570121122007-09-13T17:17:00.000-04:002007-09-13T17:17:00.000-04:00Congratulations on your defense!Congratulations on your defense!Karmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09651110371762568682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-28126895561098571232007-09-13T17:11:00.000-04:002007-09-13T17:11:00.000-04:00Bill Bennet on filth and lucre? Funny homonymic co...Bill Bennet on <A HREF="http://corrente.blogspot.com/2004_05_30_corrente_archive.html#108624510992731224" REL="nofollow">filth</A> and <A HREF="http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2003/0306.green.html" REL="nofollow">lucre</A>? Funny homonymic connection.<BR/><BR/><I>I like the complexity that you give the confused Jewish-Christian space. If it is a digestive tract, it's one that fosters dyspepsia.</I><BR/><BR/>Absolutely, and that's the direction I should be taking this.<BR/><BR/>Re: drink-buying. You could mail me some champagne, so long as you're in the box with it. I suppose we can just making JKW your drink-buying agent: I know he's up to the job.Karl Steelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03353370018006849747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-4338858843414393112007-09-13T16:47:00.000-04:002007-09-13T16:47:00.000-04:00Superimpose some apples and honey on that digestiv...Superimpose some apples and honey on that digestive system and you have the perfect Rosh Hashanah post.<BR/><BR/>Off the top of my head I can't recall if there is some famous interpretation of the tale from such a gastroenterological point of view. About 15 years ago, when I was in graduate school, a student one year ahead of me named Bill Bennet delivered a conference paper in which he used Freud on filth and lucre and a mapping of the ghetto as a digestive system to read the narrative. But he never entered the academy, and as far as I know never published the piece. <BR/><BR/>I like the complexity that you give the confused Jewish-Christian space. If it is a digestive tract, it's one that fosters dyspepsia.<BR/><BR/>On a different topic: CONGRATULATIONS Karl on being done. I owe you a drink. An expensive one.Jeffrey Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.com