greller_pobel@yahoo.ca wrote:
> This flash mob will take place online, so anyone around the world with
> internet access can participate!
>
> TITLE: "The Sodality of Ratagnon"
>
> PLACE: http://groups.google.com/group/sci.lang
>
> TIME/DATE: Anytime on February 11, 2006.
>
> INSTRUCTIONS:
> Go to the Google discussion group at the URL above. If you do not
> already have an account with Google Groups, you will need to sign up.
> This will only take a few minutes, and requires an email verification.
> Then click on <Subscribe to this group> to subscribe to the Sci.Lang
> group. Once you are subscribed, click on <Start a new topic>.
>
> Under the Subject heading, make up a title using your imagination that
> includes the word "Kinesicology".
>
> In the message body, craft a message using your imagination that
> includes ALL of the following words and phrases:
> - The Sodality of Ratagnon
> - sub-linguistical
> - postmodern mangrove
> - underpants
> - freaked out
You are posting to a surrealistic group. Well then, I give you
some surrealism. You may know Marcel Duchamp. His work
is full of symbols, and some of them are very ancient ones.
Air, for example, stays for ideas, inspiration, according to
Hebrew ru-ach, Greek pneuma, Latin spiritus, all of them
meaning wind, air, breath, and spirit. Water and liquids
are a symbol of life. Matter is a symbol of being, metals
of the human existence, warmth is a symbol of liveliness,
3-dimensionality a symbol of reality, while two dimensions
represent images and language, the latter present in the
plane of sexuality in the Large Glass by Marcel Duchamp.
Language, in my opinion, is the means of getting help,
support and understanding from those we depend upon
in one way or another (and every means of getting such
help, support and understanding may be called language,
on whatever level of life it occurs). The work of Duchamp
is full of symbols, and there are puns as well. Consider
for example the title of the Large Glass: LA MARIEE
MISE A NU PAR SES CELIBATAIRES, MEME, MARCEL
DUCHAMP. You can read this title in a slightly different
way: Mona Lisa vue par ses spectateurs m'aime, Leonard
de Vinci. And have a look at the postcard of the Mona
Lisa with an added moustache and goat beard: the very
fine ends of the moustache are pointing to the pupil of
the respective eye, while the letters L.H.O.O.Q, if read
the English way, yield LOOK ... !f you are looking into
the eyes of the Mona Lisa, you can't see the corners
of her mouth clearly any more, the shadows of the
corners of the mouth and of the cheeks are melting
into each other, you can't even see the corners of the
mouth any longer, but you know they are there, so you
project them somewhere into the region where you expect
them, only that the round shadows of the cheeks draw
them sideward and upward, the line of the mouth turns
into an arc, Mona Lisa smiles ... I discovered this in 1974,
when I also deciphered the symbols by Marcel Duchamp.
He must have discovered the true meaning of Leonardo's
famous Mona Lisa (an allegory of seeing), and as nobody
followed him, he made the general misunderstanding of art
the topic of his own art. - Now what do I say with my long
sermon? If you, from alt.surrealism, wish to surprise us at
sci.lang, you must come up with something really good,
just a pubertary joke won't do.
Regards Franz Gnaedinger www.seshat.ch
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