[NetBehaviour] interesting new language

[Bjørn Magnhildøen]

i think that's nice deconstruction of 'news' as a virus
hysteria brings out the best in people


On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 6:09 PM Max Herman via NetBehaviour <
netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> Some odd emails are arriving.  Such as, from the local Theater, announcing
> that my tickets to *Twelfth Night* are canceled, as are performances of *The
> Bacchae* and a new work called *CenterPlay*.
>
> Canceled by what?  A non-living yet self-reproducing molecule.  An ironic
> creator of empty theaters, unplayed plays both Shakespearean and hockey.
> How novel!
>
> I got another email from the Public Broadcasting System called "what you
> need to know about the Novel Coronavirus."
>
> Novel, is a word, it means book, or narrative, new narrative, nouvelle,
> and in this sense is old as *Don Quixote* or *Moll Flanders*, not that
> new anymore (though perhaps newer than *Hamlet Prince of Denmark)*.
> At one time it meant "the new books" arguably, neobiblia, novi libri.
> Corona means crown, but going farther back meant garland for military
> service, from the PIE "bend," as in, you bend a branch of leaves so that
> you can place it on someone's head, "they fought."  (Art is from a similar
> PIE root for joint, arthritis, arm, a bend that bends?)  An identifier of
> something done and of identification.  Virus means poisonous fluid,
> possibly from PIE "ueis-" to melt away, flow, rot perhaps?  I often think
> of the PIE root weid- to see, but I don't know if they are related.  Flow,
> see?  I try to imagine two hominids trying to talk to each other at some
> point, one more motivated, the other patient, one scribbling with a stick
> or spoken words, saying "see?  see what I mean?" scribble scribble chatter
> chatter.
>
> So, book-garland-poisonflow?  In any case, it all seems very like
> haunting, very like memory.  The novel is what we don't know yet, right?  A
> virus isn't new if we have memory of it.  Our whole immune system is like a
> library.  We each have our own, but we also are part of each other's.
> Similar perhaps to how libraries are connected.
>
> All of which calls to mind Hippocrates I think.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Max
>
> https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=novel
> https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=corona
> https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=virus
> https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=vision
> https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=art
> https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=medicine
>
> https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Telomere-structure-A-Telomeres-are-composed-by-a-double-strand-region_fig2_323523320
> Chapter Four: Hippocratic Medicine and Greek Tragedy
> https://brill.com/view/book/9789004232549/B9789004232549-s005.xml
> https://www.etymonline.com/word/*weid-?ref=etymonline_crossreference
> https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=*weis-
>
> PS - sadly or happily, that same Public Broadcasting Service email
> announces Niall Ferguson's new TV show Networld, tragically or comically,
> debuting on March 17, the night I was supposed to see *Twelfth Night*,
> the night on which Saint Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland.
> https://www.pbs.org/video/niall-fergusons-networld-preview-cpi5cf/?utm_source=whattowatchnews&utm_medium=email&utm_term=secondarypromo6&utm_content=20200228&utm_campaign=networld_2020
>
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