Theatre, Picture, Word

There is mystery. Wendell Piez reminds the TEI [Text Encoding Initiative] gang in a posting of July 31, 2006:


There may actually be a hidden lesson here, Martin, especially in view of the last exchange on editing software. You recall that one of the most tantalizing things we know (of the little we know) of the mysteries at Eleusis is that they involved not just what was said (ta legomena) but what was shown (ta deiknymena) and what was performed (ta dromena).


http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0607&L=tei-l&T=0&F=&S=&P=6967

Rather fun to decontextualize and generalize the trio of actions. Talk, show, do. A syntagm for blogger times?

And so for day 533
29.05.2008