[lit-ideas] Family resemblances
- From: cblitid@xxxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2012 12:42:53 +0100
On 29-Nov-12, I wrote:
... and here I'd just about given up on Phil-Lit!
To which Omar Kusturica responded (on 30-Nov-12, at 12:35 AM):
Well, you might as well have given up on Phil-Lit, a list only the
elders among us remember, and perhaps not too fondly. I also believe
it is now defunct. This is Lit-Ideas !
To which Steve Cameron replied (on 30-Nov-12, at 11:54 AM):
**Au contraire, Omar. As with many list-post groups, Phil-Lit had,
for a while after its inception, many positive and worthwhile
discussions -- followed by numerous more/less successful debates ...
In recently talking to my younger sister M. about conversations with
my father (who recently celebrated his 90th birthday), I commented on
his evident continued perspicuity - other than the fact that he would
frequently use my younger sister M.'s name when referring to my older
sister, C.; my younger sister's daughter K.'s name when referring to
M.; etc. (A related family confusion stemming from my - now 5-year-
deceased - stepmother: my younger sister's son N. was, and still often
is, referred to using my name, C.; whereas I was often addressed by my
stepmother with the - long-dead - family dog's name, Toby. As Toby was
a much-loved family member, I always took this as a compliment.)
But I (parenthetically) digress. Of course on Nov. 29th when I wrote
'Phil-Lit' I meant 'Lit-Ideas'; but 'Phil-Lit' (and its untimely
demise) had recently come up in conversation (with the neighbours) -
and I still think of the two lists of having much in common (a sort of
family resemblance, if you like) and a continuing connection (as
family members across generations do). In some ways, I mentally refer
to them collectively as Phil-Lit-Ideas.
Indeed (as would be evident to anyone participating in or overhearing
the aforementioned conversation with the neighbours) my 'Phil-Lit' of
Nov. 29th was a Freudian slip (akin to addressing or referring to a
current partner using the name of an ex-spouse) - but I won't go there
here ...
Toby Juggler,
who almost never gives up, and is
currently enjoying a schizoid phase,
in ... <where am I now, anyway?>
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