We had a very amusing mix-up today in class, where Carly accidentally attributed a lovely passage from Sidney(..." freely ranging in the zodiac of his own wit.")to Shelley. It's a simple mistake--they have essays of the same title and names that start with an 'S'--but I wonder if perhaps Shelley and Sidney will end up intertwining in their arguments. I haven't read Shelley yet, and will be interested to see if this is the case or not.

And this great french phrase employed by Frye trahison des clercs-- treason of the clerks. The context Frye was using it in was of intellectual declination, but I have to confess that the first thing that popped into my mind when I heard this phrase was the Monty Python short about office clerks who revolt and turn their building into a pirate ship. Anyway.

And two very cumbersome but interesting words. Motonomy, where you say a word that means something else other than what you are directly refering to and synectequa, which has the same function, but moves in a different direction. At least that's what I think it means.