Hermeneutic Heretic

An archive of Dominik Lukeš's blog, 2005–2008

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This is an archive of Hermeneutic Heretic, a blog Dominik Lukeš wrote from November 2005 to June 2008. It is no longer updated. His current work is at dominiklukes.net.

Poetry in blogs and cognitive persistence

Originally published · Cognition · Discourse - text · Linguistics · Poetry

Just Say No "Nonetheless I took the tomatoes away."
This is only partially a hermeneutic post.

It’s so rare to see poetry in blogs (unless they’re poets’ blogs which I don’t read) but this last line in a post, turned it into a poem. It reminded me of my favorite poem by Vladimír Holan about a Russian soldier and him walking by the lake killing fish with handgranades.

But what I found introspectively interesting how reading that last line completely changed the rhythm (and meaning) of the entire post spanning 427 words. What about the post (and texts in general) persists in the mind that can be profiled and made generally salient? I can’t quite even imagine how we would go about studying this but we’ll need to.

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