ITS Text #!. Agaddah from Taanit Bavli 20a-b presented by Dauer

[dauer]

InLove,

Just an fyi, there are no visually present line breaks or scene breaks in the original text. If they are there, it is only contextually. You could break things up differently if it seemed to make more sense to go that way.

Dauer

[InLove]

Hey dauer--thanks! Yeah, I am aware. That is what makes it so interesting. If you break it up one way, it looks different than if you break it up another way. I think that as one puts it all back together again, the meaning becomes clearer, yet the same as the original. Perhaps the very reason for the way it was "put together" in the first place. I'll get back to ya on this one.

InPeace,
InLove

[InLove]

Hi All--Peace--

I just thought I'd let you know that even though I printed the story out and left it by my reading chair to review on a regular basis, I am not so sure I have anything to offer yet beyond the observations that are already here. So I just wanted to drop in and let you know I am still studying and looking forward to whatever comes next. I don't want to hold up the class.

LOL--I may be one of those students that needs an extra credit op.

It's not like I don't have some ideas; it's just that I don't know if they are appropriate at this time or even if they would actually be all that relevant. Please do continue...I find it quite intriguing.

InPeace,
InLove

[pohaikawahine]

quote from dauer "I want to clarify because Poh, when I mentioned your post, I don't think I was all that clear. Agaddah can be symbolic, but when it does it tends to give us arrows pointing to the symbolism, so the symbols can actually be found in the text without having to leave it and find something else outside (the exception being allusions to biblical stories, which are generally pretty blunt.) You found one of those arrows in your first post, but we won't get to what it's pointing to until we're quite a bit deeper into the story, if not at the end."

Ok dauer - I agree with in-love .... I may also not be exactly on the right track and sometimes an not too sure about what direction to go in .... so lets get deeper into the story because I'm not sure what arrow I found, but am interested to know more.... on one of your last posts you said you would have more to say after the weekend .... so let's continue and see where we all go .... aloha nui, poh