Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 9/17/00 10:08:40 AM Eastern Daylight Time, dpost@triad.rr.com writes: << After careful consideration, I have an idea that the translation would follow thusly: If by Surrealist she means a 'higher' realism, then we think of imaginative thought, and of course, a vantage point is simply- a point of view. Think of radical at being extreme to the norm, and 'modern culture' as- society. Devolution is a regression, a throwback, and irony is used here to show that the 'evidence' or things and events in our sphere of influence, are democratized- made common and cheap, in our current understanding of the word. The key word is 'strategy'- a means of implementing an agenda. So it basically boils down to- "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder", and " Those who fail to study history are doomed to repeat it..." See? It's really simple! :o) Dan (Geez! My head hurts!...Honey! Where's my Ritalin!?) Post > << Suzy said: > > "The Surrealist strategy... has devolved into an easy irony > that... > equates its scatter of evidence with > history." >> Excellent Post, Dan. Good work trying to make sense of pretentious and ungrammatical pedantry. As you can see, I have now taken the liberty of redacting the sentence, leaving one which would be easier to diagram. "Strategy" is the subject, and "irony" is the subject of the dependent clause. The writer has attempted to construct an elaborate and, I daresay, strained metaphor involving the words "strategy" and "irony". We behold the unseemly spectacle of an irony (a strategy, prior to its devolution) caught in the act of equating its "scatter of evidence" with "history". Now, I ask you, have any of us had the singular misfortune previously to have witnessed such a brazen act of equating, much less as perpretrated by an upstart "irony" such as the sad remains of the Surrealist strategy? O, it offends decency, sir! Joe Sobel ----------------------- Headers --------------------------- >>