humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare

On Feb 25, 8:12 pm, Dennis wrote:
> On Feb 25, 5:05 pm, Elizabeth wrote:
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> > _____________________________________________
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> > In this post I want to get started on Looney's
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> > Wonder Theory of Oxfordian Authorship.
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> > Humans are wowed in by wonder, I think it's Sokol
> > who calls it a 'psychosomatic experience,' our minds
> > and bodies are simiultaneously engaged by something
> > new or unexpected or unique.
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> > In The Tempest Miranda is 'a wonder' because she
> > is the 'top of admiration!
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> > Admired Miranda!
> > Indeed, the top of admiration, worth
> > What's dearest to the world.
>
> > The line 'top of admiration,' is a phrase unique
> > to Bacon.
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> > Bacon writes in the Augmentis that the 'tops,
> > ultimates or summitates of human nature should
> > be studied.'
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> > Humans seem to want to study the 'tops of admir-
> > ation,' we study atheletes; Einstein's brain is in
> > a jar, probably at Princeton.
>
> > Here's the mechanism of Looney wonder:
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> > Looney's readers only swoon because Looney
> > merges Oxford's incomparable title -- 17th earl
> > of the ancient De Vere line -- with the even more
> > incomparable Shakspeare works. Somehow
> > that conflation of high nobility and genius literary
> > works puts Looney's reader into a suspended
> > state, a state of wonderment.
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> > I've experienced it. Took me a couple of weeks
> > to throw off.
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> > The quotes are indebted to Theobald, p. 88.
>
> Does Looney discuss a "Wonder Theory of Oxfordian Authorship"? I'll be
> very disappointed - I thought I put that together myself.
>
> Nothing new under the sun, I suppose.
>
> Could you refer me to the pages?
>
> Thanks
> Nicole

It's implicit in the joining of impossibly
high earl to impossibly genius works.
We can only drop our jaws.

I'm enjoying your selection of material.