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Re: Myth & Ideology & Truth-look
John Pastore (venture@CANCUN.RCE.COM.MX)
Fri, 19 Apr 1996 13:35:14 +0000
On 18 Apr 96 at 21:09, Elaine Hills (UND) wrote:
> the velar side of this play on words/phonemes would be.....
>
> the cook of gruth??????
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> (haha)
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> On Wed, 17 Apr 1996, Ronald Kephart wrote:
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> > In message <CMM-RU.1.5.829717979.rgcalo@er6.rutgers.edu> "Richard
> > G. Calo" writes:
> > >
> > > P.S. For all those who read the subject heading to my friday
> > > post "the look of truth" as a statement that the content of the
> > > post was meant to be the look of truth _itself_-- no, that
> > > wasn't it. I was only enjoying the 'play' afforded by
> > > alliterating Daniel Foss' subject heading in his post "the book
> > > of ruth" into "the look of truth"-- nothing more. Indeed, for a
> > > while it wasa toss up between "the cook of ruth," "the cook of
> > > truth," and "the look of truth." I chose the latter because I
> > > thought the 'l's and 't's and 'r's sounded well together.
> >
> > Interesting. /l t r/ are all, more-or-less, alveolar consonants,
> > while the /k/ of 'cook' is velar. Is there some really deep truth
> > happening here?
The "Oh, what balls we do weave when we pracitce to believe", was,
in a way, a playing with words too, as in: "Oh, what webs we do
weave, when we practice to deceive."
I think there can be more truth(?) found in humor than most anywere
else. Check this one out by Woody Allen (I just used it in
MayaQuest):
"Time is just nature's way of keeping everything from happening at
once."
Have fun...
Ka Xiik Keech Ya Utzil,
John Pastore
Writer/Guide in 'El Mayab'
("The Mayan Homeland")
venture@cancun.rce.com.mx
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