02-04-2009, 07:59 PM
In this case Jack, I think it's tomfoolery aimed at personal promotion and name recognition.
If you made a sufficiently long speech and I ran it through an Anagram finder, I could easily "find" a short sentence, the meaning of which you would have no inkling of.
For example taking the first words of the opening paragraph of the article you linked:
I get the somewhat Shakespearean result of:
If you made a sufficiently long speech and I ran it through an Anagram finder, I could easily "find" a short sentence, the meaning of which you would have no inkling of.
For example taking the first words of the opening paragraph of the article you linked:
Quote:Fresh from his first visit to Ottawa, Canada on February...
I get the somewhat Shakespearean result of:
Quote:Away Crab! Striver of ornate stiffish mirth
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14