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:
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 1 – 2 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. … |
(The date 932 may or may not be accurate, but still serves nicely as what has been called elsewhere “an instance of the fingerpost.”)