I'm a fan since 1977. Believe it or not, I only recently noticed that SRD likes to use subtle wordplay in his naming conventions. For brevity, I'll only example a few:
Orison: prayer
Amnion: membrane surrounding human fetus
Elohim: Hebrew God
Jehannum: Arabic Hell
Mordant: sharp, critical
Moksha: release from cycle of rebirth
I know of some few more but I wonder has anyone parsed his works in depth on this idea? Please point me to the relevent post or link if so; or please email me with others.
Thanks!
Help with SRD's wordplay
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Be Welcome to the Watch, Kukulkan.
Be Well Come and True.
I am unsure where this is discussed on the Watch itself, though I know it has been broached. We even had a limerick contest featuring words SRD uses at one time.
However, have you seen the Stephen R. Donaldson Ate My Dictionary site? That may be a good place to begin as well.
Glad to see you felt comfortable enough to jump right in. Please feel free to come introduce yourself in the Say Hello in here thread in The Summonsing.
Be Well Come and True.
I am unsure where this is discussed on the Watch itself, though I know it has been broached. We even had a limerick contest featuring words SRD uses at one time.
However, have you seen the Stephen R. Donaldson Ate My Dictionary site? That may be a good place to begin as well.
Glad to see you felt comfortable enough to jump right in. Please feel free to come introduce yourself in the Say Hello in here thread in The Summonsing.
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What Menolly said about the dictionary, check it out, but even it doesn't deal with the [actually, I think SOMETIMES it did] metaphorical and allusory [is that a word?] nature of some of them. I've never run across a thread entirely about that...but it pops up a lot in other threads time to time. SRD himself talks about this fairly often in the Gradual Interview...but if you haven't been there/haven't been keeping up, good luck finding them, literally thousands of questions and answers to sort through at this point.
[specific example...you mentioned moksha, but all three ravers "real" names (turiya and whatever the third is that's slipping my mind]
are, roughly, stages of enlightenment...and their other names have other references as well...like jehannum.
[specific example...you mentioned moksha, but all three ravers "real" names (turiya and whatever the third is that's slipping my mind]
are, roughly, stages of enlightenment...and their other names have other references as well...like jehannum.
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the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
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