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* '''river Rhine''', regarding the connections between FW and Wagner's "Ring des Nibelungen"-tetralogy, starting with "Rheingold". (And actually ending with the gold "Given!" back to the nixies at the finale of "Götterdämmerung".)
  
 
[[Category: Rivers]]
 
[[Category: Rivers]]

Revision as of 16:20, 25 August 2006

  • riverain: (adj) pertaining to a river or a riverbank; situated or dwelling on or near a river
  • riverain: (n) a district situated beside a river
  • riverine: riverain (adj)
  • It Dial riveran: they will arrive
  • ri-: It ricorso: return → Vico’s ricorso storico (“historical return”)
  • err: to make a mistake; to sin; to wander from the right way; to go astray
  • G Erinnerung: remembrance; memory (i.e. a thing remembered) → “... memory is the same thing as imagination ... the theological poets called Memory the mother of the Muses” (Vico, New Science ¶ 819)
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan: Or, A Vision in a Dream. A Fragment, lines 1-4: "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan/ A stately pleasure-dome decree:/ Where Alph, the sacred river, ran/ Through caverns measureless to man/ Down to a sunless sea." → with a possible hint that this word is the Alpha of FW and symbolizes ALP
  • Reverend: cf. ALP's letter FW 615 ff: "Dear. And we go on to Dirtdump. Reverend."
    • Reverend Jonathan Swift?
  • F rêverons: let us dream
  • F reverrons: let us return
  • F riverain: inhabitant
  • F rêverie: day-dreaming; reverie
  • reverie: an undirected train of thoughts or fancies in meditation; mental abstraction; a fanciful notion; piece of music expressing mental abstraction
  • river rune
  • Genesis 2:10: "A river ran out of Eden"
  • ON Ragnarok: fate of the gods; twilight of the gods; end of the world
  • River Jordan: river in the Holy Land → Giordano Bruno → "Brown Jordan" → Liffey (074.05: "turfbrown waters") → the Liffey as Dublin's sewer → jordan = chamber-pot
  • watercourse → Latinism-Saxonism of "river-run" becomes Saxonism-Latinism of "water-course"
  • water faucet in the corner of HCE's bedroom → the 1st of 7 elements in a circuit of HCE's bedroom
  • ALP
  • river Rhine, regarding the connections between FW and Wagner's "Ring des Nibelungen"-tetralogy, starting with "Rheingold". (And actually ending with the gold "Given!" back to the nixies at the finale of "Götterdämmerung".)