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Examples of displacement (“we know it before we know it”):
1. James Joyce: Finnegan’s Wake 1922-1939
“... Hadn’t he seven dams to wive him? And every dam had her seven crutches. And every crutch had its seven hues. And each hue had a differing cry.”
"... And the prankquean went for her forty years’ walk..."
"riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs. ... Coming, far! End here. Us then. Finn, again! Take. Bussoftlhee, mememormee! Till thous-endsthee. Lps. The keys to. Given ! A way a lone a last a loved a long the"
This is the farmer sowing his corn,
That kept the cock that crowed in the morn,
That waked the priest all shaven and shorn,
That married the man all tattered and torn,
That kissed the maiden all forlorn,
That milked the cow with the crumpled horn,
That tossed the dog,
That worried the cat,
That killed the rat,
That ate the malt
That lay in the house that Jack built
~Mother Goose
2. Corona: Barney Miller writer
"... my mother’s best friend’s daughter Debbie was ugly ..."
3. James Thurber: The Princess and the Tin Box
" ...kindly stay after class and write one hundred times on the blackboard, 'I would rather have a hunk of aluminum silicate than a diamond necklace.' "
4. Joyce Carol Oates: Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
for Bob Dylan
"Her name was Connie. She was fifteen and she had a quick, nervous giggling habit of craning her neck to glance into mirrors or checking other people's faces to make sure her own was all right. Her mother, who noticed everything and knew everything and who hadn't much reason any longer to look at her own face, always scolded Connie about it. "Stop gawking at yourself. Who are you? You think you're so pretty?" she would say."
5. MS: Katie and Lisa
" ...Get your ass out of bed, [Red] -- Grandma needs ..."
Sam The Sham and the Pharoahs
Little Red Riding Hood
summer 1966
wolf whistle
Jon Scieszka: Three Little Pigs from wolf’s POV
Ride a cock-horse to Banbury Cross,
To see an old lady upon a white horse;
Rings on her fingers, and bells on her toes,
She will have music wherever she goes.
Hey! diddle, diddle ...
~Mother Goose
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didactic: intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive; in the manner of a teacher, particularly so as to treat someone in a patronizing way (OED)
dithyrambic: a wild choral hymn of ancient Greece, esp. one dedicated to Dionysus; a passionate or inflated speech, poem, or other writing (OED)
paean cf. dithyramb
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