Actually, the Hamlet example at the link below is a terrible example of catechresis then. Words *do* exist for the killing of one's mother *and* brother. Matricide and fratricide, respectively.
Dil
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Adam Piontek <apiontek@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 10:45:40 -0700 (PDT)
quoted 49 lines Sure is pointless, since catechresis is just a word
>Sure is pointless, since catechresis is just a word
>like any other (see
>http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Figures/CATACHRESIS.HTM
>...)
>
>Kind of like if Radiohead use the word "slide"
>anywhere; "ooh, ooh, and as we all know, Autechre had
>an EP called Chiastic SLIDE!" Ooh!
>
>At any rate, considering its definition and the fact
>that they used it with the word "library," I'd guess
>it's pretty much unrelated.
>-adam, whore to himself
>
>--- Mark Stevens <mark@headspin.clara.net> wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> Some pointless trivia for you all. The limited
>> edition version of
>> Radiohead's Amnesiac (which resembles a library
>> book) refers to the
>> "Catachresis Library". And, as we all know, "Lentic
>> Catachresis" is
>> the name of a track on Autechre's "Confield".
>>
>>
>> --
>> Mark Stevens
>> http://www.headspin.clara.net/
>>
>>
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