[lit-ideas] Re: Bring on the Clowns
- From: David Ritchie <profdritchie@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2013 12:11:26 -0700
On Apr 6, 2013, at 12:57 AM, Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx wrote:
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>
> In a message dated 4/3/2013 10:28:23 P.M. UTC-02, omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx
> writes:
> I mean, I consider Derrida a clown,
>
>
> 1560s, also cloyne, "rustic, boor, peasant," origin uncertain. Perhaps from
> Scandinavian dialect (cf. Icelandic klunni "clumsy, boorish fellow;"
> Swedish kluns "a hard knob, a clumsy fellow"), or akin to North Frisian
> klönne
> "clumsy person," or, less likely, from Latin colonus "colonist, farmer."
> Meaning "fool, jester" is c.1600. "The pantomime clown represents a blend of
> the Shakes[pearean] rustic with one of the stock types of the It. comedy"
> [Weekley]. Meaning "contemptible person" is from 1920s.
>
A colonist or farmer was clumsy. That's an interesting window into the
importance to farmers of deep local knowledge.
David Ritchie,
celebrating Tartan Day in
Portland, Oregon
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