“Ramifications of third level gematrian permutations of the Letter B in Chaucer\u2019s Canterbury Tales”<\/p>\n
In T.K. Mouser\u2019s methodology, the letter B is represented by 11,<\/i> typed the PhD student. While this is an improvement over the simplistic Rationalist school\u2019s approach of equating B with 2, it remains a second level permutation, which does not allow the same complexity of third level permutation. In the third level gematria advanced by the New School, however, all attempts at consistency are abandoned and the value assigned to Letter B is determined by random selection of an integer 0-9. The same methodology, of course, is applied to the other Letters, except in Scott\u2019s system, in which Z and X are always 0, but CH is represented as a third level Letter.<\/i><\/p>\n
After a moment, the student added, \u201c[Note to self: What about TH?]\u201d<\/p>\n
Reading the computer screen over the student\u2019s shoulder, the student\u2019s room mate said, \u201cI don\u2019t get it. What does this have to do with Chaucer?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe only way to interpret texts such as Chaucer is to use gematria,\u201d explained the student. \u201cThe old system was to equate A with 1, B with 2, C with 3, and so on. Then you add up all the numbers in a given word and compare it to other words with the same numeric value elsewhere in the text to find the hidden meanings.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe hidden meanings?\u201d asked the room mate. \u201cWhat about the actual meanings?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOnly people who read for pleasure worry about that,\u201d said the student. \u201cThis is Literary Criticism, not bourgeoisie consumption of literature as entertainment.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOh,\u201d said the room mate.<\/p>\n
Indeed,<\/i> typed the student, the rotating random assignment of a single digit numeric value to a Letter results in unsettling fluidity of interpretation, constantly transgressing the boundaries of conventional Alpha-Numeric dichotomies, contesting and problemetisizing the stereotypes of which Letter constitutes which number, and profoundly challenging the norms of racism and sexism.<\/i><\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think most racists and sexists are going to be profoundly challenged by Literary Criticism,\u201d said the room mate.<\/p>\n
and heterosexism,<\/i> added the student.<\/p>\n
The student continued typing while the room mate wandered off to drink a soda. When the room mate returned, the student was typing:<\/p>\n
\u2026thus, since in this fourth reading of The Canterbury Tales, the word \u201creeve\u201d had the same numeric value as \u201cnun\u201d but in the fifth reading, the same value as \u201cweeping\u201d this shows that\u2026<\/i><\/p>\n
\u201cHow can it show anything?\u201d asked the room mate. \u201cYou just assign numbers randomly to words, and it\u2019s not even the same numbers every time. I can\u2019t believe you can get a PhD writing this nonsense.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t believe you\u2019re belittling my career like that.\u201d The student sounded more sullen than wounded.<\/p>\n
\u201cSorry. All I\u2019m saying is, since the original words are just turned into random meaningless numbers, which are just compared to other random and meaningless numbers, and the whole point of the methodology is to prove that all literature is random and meaningless\u2026 well, why even bother reading The Canterbury Tales? You might as well just analyze Stephen King.\u201d<\/p>\n
A guilty flinch from the student compelled the room mate to lean closer. \u201cHey! You are just reading Stephen King.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOkay, yeeeeesss,\u201d allowed the student. \u201cBut it\u2019s still not easy to write this stuff. I have to churn out another fifty pages.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll go get you a soda,\u201d said the room mate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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