HONR 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Menards, Ficciones, Anachronism
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New theory of meaning (given by context) Menard"s version of don. q is significantly better. Menard (perhaps without wishing to) has enriched, by means fo a new technique, the hesitant and rudimentary art of reading: the technique is one of deliberate anachronism and erroneous attributions. This technique, with its infinite applications, urges us to run through the odyssey as if it were written after the aeneid, and to read le jardin du centaure by mme. Henri bachelier as if it were by mme henri bachelier. This technique would fill the dullest books with adventure. Imitation of christ to louis ferdinand celine or james joyce be a sufficient renovation of its tenuous spiritual counsels? (p54-55) This enumeration is a mere rhetorical eulogy of history. Although, the words are the same, the context and meaning is different. The paradox is that the text do not have the same meaning its a process.
