Re: Tale of Genji - hidden word games

From: aesthete8 (aesthete8_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/28/04 

Date: 27 Aug 2004 19:03:22 -0700

Or could they have included word games like palindromes?:

http://www.cincinnati.com/freetime/strange/081103_strange.html#pal

aesthete8@hotmail.com (aesthete8) wrote in message news:<e615dbbc.0408251723.3c641a06@posting.google.com>...
> If you know what ukiyo-e's BENI-GIRAI means, is there a possibility
> that Murasaki S. could have included things like that in her novel?
>
> For instance, is it possible that she could have written the 1st
> chapter by never using a certain common word, and then wrote the next
> chapter leaving out another common word, etc.?
>
> The following is an example of what I mean by a hidden word game:
>
> http://www.parade.com/current/columns/askmarilyn.html

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