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Monday, December 4, 2006

Monday December 4, 2006

Filed under: General — m759 @ 2:45 am
180, 932 –
The Musical!

“You gotta be
true to your code.”
— Sinatra

NY Lottery, 2006:

Dec. 3 Mid-day – 180
Dec. 3 Evening – 932

Yesterday’s entry suggested that
the date, December 3, might be
appropriate for some sort of
Broadway production.

Yesterday evening’s NY lottery
number, 932, suggests*
(via Google) that a visit to
the castle Wildeck
is in order.

This castle is now the home
of the Buchdruck-Museum
honoring Johannes Gutenberg.

For an appropriate Broadway
production, see today’s
New York Times:

Gutenberg! The Musical!

Yesterday’s mid-day NY lottery
number, 180, suggests, in the
above context, the German term
Umkehrung.  A casual web search
on this term (+ “reversal,”
then, refining the search,
+ “Theocritus”) leads
to the following material,
which I personally find of
much greater interest than
the above Broadway production.

(Such web searches are made
possible by a technological
revolution comparable to that
of Gutenberg… Broadway may
perhaps look forward to…
Google! The Musical!“)

Google Search 12/4/06
Results 12 of about 14
for umkehrung theocritus. (0.07 seconds) 

JSTOR: Theocritus

I12: on ‘transference’ by Theocritus of refined motifs to uncouth peasants, is in reality a parody, a devastating ‘Umkehrung‘ of the real thing,

JSTOR: A Theophany
in Theocritus

A THEOPHANY IN THEOCRITUS IN a masterly study of the language and motifs of epithet I The completeness and precision of the Umkehrung (for this term cf.

*ZSCHOPAU, a town in the kingdom of Saxony, on the left bank of the Zschopau…. It contains… a castle (Wildeck), built by the Emperor Henry I in 932.” —From the classic 11th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica (1911)

(The date 932 may or may not be accurate, but still serves nicely as what has been called elsewhere “an instance of the fingerpost.”)

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