Carrol
On 7/6/2011 9:50 AM, Carrol Cox wrote:
> Clearly I should have held up posting my "Response toM.G." for a few days
> and then revised it; I seem to have slipped into some unfortunate
> rhertorical habits again. Aolso, I've probably not read DW's posts carefully
> enough (there again, my eyes tempt me to do a quick judgment on the basis of
> reading fragments). Anyone who can make the distinction between content and
> authroiral persona is someone to take seriously.
>
> And now I've spent some time trying to decipher the metaphor in "dissenting
> wren," which is complicated a bit by not knowing the gender behind it. But
> on the assumption that it is less serious to mistake male for female than
> female for male, I'll provisionally assume kDW's gender is female. Now to
> the metaphor. "Wren," a small, weak (?), timid creature - but _this_ wren
> breaks the mold: It stands up (a bird standing?) and declares No to the
> world surrounding it. (There is a passage in PL, I think Book 12, in which
> Adam declares that the weak are the strong.) This is a crude beginning, but
> it perhaps points adirection and warns us to be more careful than I've been
> in construing her posts.
>
> I'm working of a revised version of "Response to MG."
>
> Carrol
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