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Svar: Graffiti in Verne

From: Lejf Rasmussen <Lejf.Rasmussen~at~psy.ku.dk>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 14:15:37 +0200
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Daer Terry,

     There is a signature of Andrea Debono on the island in the Nile in
"5 weeks in a balloon"

                                          Lejf


Lejf Rasmussen
Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen
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>>> tharpold~at~english.ufl.edu 06/22 12:29 >>>
Dear colleagues,

I'm compiling a catalogue of examples of "graffiti" in Verne. I use the
term in a broad sense, to mean a signature or a message inscribed or
written on a surface where one would not normally expect to find writing
-- especially a signature of the writer. (In contemporary graffiti
culture, this person would be called the "tagger".)

Examples: Saknussemm's several signatures on stone, in _Voyage au
centre de la terre_; Kamylk-Pacha's "KK" monograms, in _Maitre Antifer;
I think that Robur's flags, posted to the summits of the tallest
buildings of America, Europe and Asia in ch. 1 of _Robur-le-conquerant,
qualifies as as good an example of "tagging" in Verne as any. I would
not include Nemo's scratching of "ATLANTIS" on a rock face as he shows
Aronnax the sunken city in _Vingt Milles lieues sous les mers_, as that
seems to me to of a different character than the above examples.

Suggestions of other examples are welcome.

Regards,

TH

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Terry Harpold
Assistant Professor
Department of English
University of Florida

tharpold~at~acm.org
tharpold~at~english.ufl.edu
http://www.english.ufl.edu/~tharpold

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