Subject: MB: Sv: A question of echoes
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 01:08:58 +0200


Speaking of echoes: I attempt to answer myself - I have uncovered the name of Christopher Smart - which is a clue, I admit - but any more precise ones?

Oleg


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Dato: 12. april 2000 00:16
Emne: MB: A question of echoes


>A question that is somewhat beyond Blanchot etc - but someone out of all these good people may be able to help me: I am looking for the origins of a line quoted in Oondatje's The English Patient - it is merely indicated as something out of English litterature... the line says
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>"Echo is the sound of the voice exciting itself in hollow places"
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>Beautiful phrase, especially if you tease it out of its realist intentions (if these are at all) - but who wrote it? Not Oondatje, I believe, but hten who? Can anyone recognize these poignant words?
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>Hopefully yours,
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>Oleg Koefoed
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