patteren:
110608;676
series: meta;155
patteren:
110608;676 |
| name, location in memory : der erlkönig, the false contention regarding this title : this false contention exactly corresponding to that discord surrounding eco's rose title : in both cases the authors have created a false door [stelae] through which there is some meaning evident only to those who can pass through the door : in the case of the rose the title itself references this very fact, a meta title in effect it is self referential, the title is itself the empty name causing discord among those of us unable to pass through the false door to discover the actual meaning of the rose : these titles involve layers, the discord is the misperception that one layer is correct and the remaining layers are incorrect : a true perception involves the a priori acceptance that any presented layers hold meaning and that the true meaning derives from the aggregation of layers and that a heirarchical arrangement of layers is inappropriate : one layer [meta layer] of the rose title provides the key to all such titles, the title itself presents a rebuke against the narrow interpretation of its own meaning, it is saying there is more hidden in this title than we perceive at this time, and indeed there is more to all such titles; the presentation of the title and the quote from which it comes is a temptation to contentiousness over the meaning of the surface layer and therefore a distraction from a perception of other layers integral to the overall meaning : the title is a coded trap luring the narrow and binary tendency among observers to pick one meaning or another, to keep one layer and discard all others when actually the richness of the many layers is vital to the excavation of its meaning : |
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