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| − | * '''riverain''' | + | * '''riverain:''' (''adj'') pertaining to a river or a riverbank; situated or dwelling on or near a river |
| − | * '''riverain''' | + | * '''riverain:''' (''n'') a district situated beside a river |
| − | * '''riverine''' | + | * '''riverine:''' riverain (''adj'') |
| − | *''''' | + | *''' riveran:''' (''Italian Dialect'') they will arrive |
| − | * '''ri-''' | + | * '''ri-''' → ''ricorso'' (''Italian'') = return → [[Vico|Vico’s]] ''ricorso storico'' (“historical return”) |
| − | * '''err''' | + | * '''err:''' to make a mistake; to sin; to wander from the right way; to go astray |
| − | * ''''' | + | * ''' Erinnerung:''' (''German'') 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]], ''The New Science'' ¶ 819) |
| − | * '''Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ''Kubla Khan: Or, A Vision in a Dream. A Fragment'', lines 1-4''' | + | * '''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''' | + | * '''Reverend:''' cf. [[ALP|ALP's]] letter ([[Page_615|FW 615 ff]]): "Dear. And we go on to Dirtdump. Reverend." |
| − | ** Reverend Jonathan Swift? | + | ** '''Reverend Jonathan Swift''' ? |
| − | * ''''' | + | * '''rêverons:''' (''French'') let us dream |
| − | * ''''' | + | * '''reverrons:''' (''French'') let us return |
| − | * ''''' | + | * '''riverain:''' (''French'') inhabitant |
| − | * ''''' | + | * '''rêveries:''' (''French'') day-dreams; reveries; ravings; delusions |
* '''reverie''': an undirected train of thoughts or fancies in meditation; mental abstraction; a fanciful notion; piece of music expressing mental abstraction | * '''reverie''': an undirected train of thoughts or fancies in meditation; mental abstraction; a fanciful notion; piece of music expressing mental abstraction | ||
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* '''river rune''' | * '''river rune''' | ||
| − | * '''Rivalin''' | + | * '''Rivalin:''' Tristram's father → [[L/R split]] |
| − | * '''Genesis 2:10''' | + | * '''Genesis 2:10:''' "A river ran out of Eden" |
| − | *''''' | + | *'''Ragnarok:''' (''Old Norse'') fate of the gods; twilight of the gods; end of the world |
| − | * '''River Jordan''' | + | * '''River Jordan:''' a river in the Holy Land → Giordano Bruno, whose name means literally "Brown Jordan" → the River Liffey ([[Page_194|FW 194.22]] [[turfbrown mummy]]) → the Liffey as Dublin's sewer → jordan = a chamber-pot |
| − | * '''watercourse''' → Latinism-Saxonism of "river-run" becomes Saxonism-Latinism of "water-course" | + | * '''watercourse''' → the Latinism-Saxonism of "river-run" becomes the Saxonism-Latinism of "water-course" |
* '''water faucet in the corner of HCE's bedroom''' → the 1st of 7 elements in a circuit of [[HCE|HCE's]] bedroom | * '''water faucet in the corner of HCE's bedroom''' → the 1st of 7 elements in a circuit of [[HCE|HCE's]] bedroom | ||
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* '''ALP''' | * '''ALP''' | ||
| − | * '''river Rhine''' | + | * '''river Rhine''' → cf. the connections between FW and Wagner's operatic tetralogy "Der Ring des Nibelungen", which starts with the theft of the gold in ''Das Rheingold'', and ends with the gold being [[Given!]] ([[Page_628|FW 628.15]]) back to the Rhinemaidens at the conclusion of ''Götterdämmerung'' |
[[Category: Rivers]] | [[Category: Rivers]] | ||
Revision as of 11:18, 29 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)
- riveran: (Italian Dialect) they will arrive
- ri- → ricorso (Italian) = return → Vico’s ricorso storico (“historical return”)
- err: to make a mistake; to sin; to wander from the right way; to go astray
- Erinnerung: (German) 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, The 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 ?
- rêverons: (French) let us dream
- reverrons: (French) let us return
- riverain: (French) inhabitant
- rêveries: (French) day-dreams; reveries; ravings; delusions
- reverie: an undirected train of thoughts or fancies in meditation; mental abstraction; a fanciful notion; piece of music expressing mental abstraction
- river rune
- Rivalin: Tristram's father → L/R split
- Genesis 2:10: "A river ran out of Eden"
- Ragnarok: (Old Norse) fate of the gods; twilight of the gods; end of the world
- River Jordan: a river in the Holy Land → Giordano Bruno, whose name means literally "Brown Jordan" → the River Liffey (FW 194.22 turfbrown mummy) → the Liffey as Dublin's sewer → jordan = a chamber-pot
- watercourse → the Latinism-Saxonism of "river-run" becomes the 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
