From jmpfund@bgnet.bgsu.edu Sun Feb 10 16:35:15 2002 Received: from mailscan2.cac.washington.edu (mailscan2.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.16]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.01) with SMTP id g1B0ZEMr099868 for ; Sun, 10 Feb 2002 16:35:14 -0800 Received: FROM mxu3.u.washington.edu BY mailscan2.cac.washington.edu ; Sun Feb 10 16:35:07 2002 -0800 Received: from GOLIATH.DACOR.COM (ns1.dacor.net [63.174.195.2]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.01) with ESMTP id g1B0Z6Wn031986 for ; Sun, 10 Feb 2002 16:35:07 -0800 Received: from [63.171.164.180] (m180.max3.dacor.net [63.171.164.180]) by GOLIATH.DACOR.COM with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id 1QT9WAXA; Sun, 10 Feb 2002 19:35:00 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: jmpfund@mailstore.bgsu.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200202102319.g1ANJhg01006@ccat.sas.upenn.edu> References: <200202102319.g1ANJhg01006@ccat.sas.upenn.edu> Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 19:33:57 -0500 To: classics@u.washington.edu From: "James M. Pfundstein" Subject: Re: philology/calamity Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="============_-1198734853==_ma============" --============_-1198734853==_ma============ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable At 6:19 PM -0500 2/10/02, James J. O'Donnell wrote: >A new play by Christopher Durang was introduced this week at the Yale Rep >and on the program, the former dean of Yale drama, Robert Brustein, has >occasion to quote Ionesco: "Philology always leads to calamity." >Sobering words: accurately quoted? Context? Any Ionescans out there? >(And original language? Likely French, yes?) > >Jim O'Donnell >Classics, U. of Penn >jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu I don't have any Ionesco around the house, except for _Rhinoc=E9ros_ and _La Cantatrice chauve_, and I couldn't find the latter. But I found these two quotes on the web, both of which are supposed to be from Ionesco's _La Le=E7on_. (One of them looks like a misremembered version of the other, but maybe it's one of those echoing lines that recur, somewhat changed.) L'arithm=E9tique m=E8ne =E0 la philologie, et la philologie au crime. L'arithm=E9tique m=E8ne =E0 la philologie, qui m=E8ne au pire. J("Je suis un monstre!")MP --============_-1198734853==_ma============ Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: philology/calamity
At 6:19 PM -0500 2/10/02, James J. O'Donnell wrote:
A new play by Christopher Durang was introduced this week at the Yale Rep
and on the program, the former dean of Yale drama, Robert Brustein, has
occasion to quote Ionesco:  "Philology always leads to calamity."
Sobering words:  accurately quoted?  Context?  Any Ionescans out there?
(And original language?  Likely French, yes?)

Jim O'Donnell
Classics, U. of Penn
jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu

I don't have any Ionesco around the house, except for _Rhinoc=E9ros_ and _La Cantatrice chauve_, and I couldn't find the latter. But I found these two quotes on the web, both of which are supposed to be from Ionesco's _La Le=E7on_. (One of them looks like a misremembered version of the other, but maybe it's one of those echoing lines that recur, somewhat changed.)

L'arithm=E9tique m=E8ne =E0 la philologie, et la philologie au crime.
       
L'arithm=E9tique m=E8ne =E0 la philologie, qui m=E8ne au pire.

J("Je suis un monstre!")MP
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