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Current Talk '03 I / Re:Leviathan Concordance
« on: April 11, 2003, 08:16:57 PM »
I'm not sure why they chose to call these books Concordances. A concordance, in scholarly apparatus jargon, refers to a book that allows you to see all the references to a given word or phrase in a canonical text at a glance.
For instance, using a Bible Concordance, you can find a detailed list of each place in the Bible in which the phrase "Son of Man" is used.
And, with a Shakespeare Concordance, the important information regarding how many times the Bard had a character speak of someone's "bent pike" is available at a glance.
I'm not sure what would be cross referenced in a DS concordance. How many times the word "sedative" is used? Just when and in what circumstances someone drew the Death card? How many seances were held in what time periods/bands? How many bottles of brandy were consumed by Quentin in a given day of 1897?
The mind boggles.
Gothick
For instance, using a Bible Concordance, you can find a detailed list of each place in the Bible in which the phrase "Son of Man" is used.
And, with a Shakespeare Concordance, the important information regarding how many times the Bard had a character speak of someone's "bent pike" is available at a glance.
I'm not sure what would be cross referenced in a DS concordance. How many times the word "sedative" is used? Just when and in what circumstances someone drew the Death card? How many seances were held in what time periods/bands? How many bottles of brandy were consumed by Quentin in a given day of 1897?
The mind boggles.
Gothick