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- From: Vitalis Tiknius <V.Tiknius@fermentas.elnet.lt>
- Newsgroups: sci.classics
- Subject: re: ex oriente lux
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 02:14:46 +0200
- Distribution: world
- Organization: FERMENTAS
- Message-ID: <AAsnpNheB7@fermentas.elnet.lt>
- Sender: news-service@newcom.kiae.su
- Reply-To: V.Tiknius@fermentas.elnet.lt
- Keywords: romantism
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- > In the early 19th century, it was a short-form description of why they believed
- > that the Indo-European homeland was to be found near India, where existed what
- > they believed was the language most similar to the Ursprache. (See for example
- > Schlegel's _Die Weisheit der Indier_.) That is, the enlightened Indo-Europeans
- >
- plus various subtle culturological connotations... maybe main of these being
- the romantism-borne nature: the same schlegel, but also schelling, the
- psychopomp of these folks,- till hesse; recall his 'joseph knecht - karlo
- ferromonte' from 'briefe an die freunde', it is almost psychedelic text.
- by the way, his /hesse's/ notion about this is geographically not restricted
- at all. also about +/- meanings of the sememe.
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- much joy -- vitalis
- V.Tiknius@fermentas.elnet.lt
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