Re: Ideas, finite and infinite

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Will wrote:

> Frank Kermode said that a classic book was classic because it yielded
> polysemantic meaning over time.  In other words, books like Catcher adapt
> to readers lives in new and meaningful ways.  An example of this may be
> that Catcher's language has gone from being "realistic" to "historic"
> while still being able to reflect something insightful about the way
> adolescents speak. will

Aha! Beautiful word: polysemantic! That's just what I was trying to say.
(Guess you could say I was trying to compose a polysemantic post,
actually.) The fact that adolescent speech has recognised patterns and
tendencies that will probably never change is best reflected in `A
Clockwork Orange' where those rules are consciously used to create a new
form of language.

Camille
verona_beach@geocities.com


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