April 6, 2005
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Paratext:
A Birthday Gift for Barry Levinson
(born April 6, or maybe June 2, 1942)
The following excerpts from page 162*
in three different books
with Catholic backgrounds†
may or may not prove useful
to a film director.Locution:
Narrative Form
162satires, forgeries, fakes
parody
illocutionary stance
documentary novel
pseudofactual fiction
authorial reading
history of the book
Illocution:162
wisdom (sapientia)
understanding (intellectus)
knowledge (scientia)
fortitude or courage (fortitudo)
counsel (consilium)
piety or love (pietas), and
fear of the Lord (timor Domini)Perlocution:
The Nick Tosches Reader162
for a fool.
† The seven items in the list from the
Pocket Catholic Dictionary are from the
definition of “Gifts of the Holy Spirit.”* The page number 162 may be regarded,
in honor of the late Saul Bellow
(see previous entry), as
Humboldt’s Gift.
