[Fore-note=> I note in all regret that the thoughted notes

[Fore-note=> I note in all regret that the thoughted notes that I have made hereto Corpus Dionysiacum and side-readings-for-interpretation to this and these topics ALL in digital format have not really been "saved" to the Classroom Section of my Dionysius Called Areopagite folder. My suspicion as faulty human is to blame something that must be broken or non-functional in these digital things (PC and drives) for software (likely) or hardware (could be). YET it is even more likely that I-this-one-here did something to wrong the "savings"=> for what maybe hoped as greater safety in "keeping  keepers" I shall more-carefully post these txts and docs and odt-docs into a folder for these matters on my Desktop.]
[Post-Script to Fore-note above=> Notepad and Notepad++ are vexing insofar as keeping foreign alphabetics, which now in my case is but for Greek beside the English alphabetics of my first tongue; a buggy solution will have to be to transliterate Greek letters into transliterated English. This means double-lettering for omega and eta; chi as ch; there is a what-to-do interest with ksi as x or ex (I guess x is more usually the representation  hereat). . .]

I have found that Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) is faster by an order of magnitude to use than the home-resources on this unit. I have done parsing for nearly 20 pages in just 2 days using TLG, compared to doilng the Letters all at home with Eulexis and other Lexicals starting about May 5. "Two days (Monday and Tuesday of this week) compared to 2 months for about half the material-- not a not a hard thought to evaluate for the "somewhat brained" (me!)

Actually, I have been dilly-dallying about tackling the original text (Greek)=> it seems to be all-too-personal with me to EASILY think-about/interpret/'spin"/"slant"/"intellectualize" St. Denys (DA) a-priori to actual reading him-- a violation of First Rules of HERMENEUTIK. Yet these readings all point in a direction that is "a natural" for me=> the social science 'reading"=> of late I have by conditioning in part of all the tweedle-dum-tweedle-dee Diagnostic Manuals of the American Psychiatric Association TO THIS NEAR-CONCLUSION=>

ALL OF THESE "NOSOLOGICAL STANDARD BOOKS" ARE DESCRIPTIVE; THEY ALL DESCRIBE  S Y M P T O M S WITHOUT AND TENTATIVELY CONCLUSIVE CAUSAL "WORKINGS INSIDE THE BLACK-BOX OF HUMAN PHYSIOLOGICAL BEING"; THIS IS AT THE LEVEL WHERE IN MEDICINE WE ARE LEFT WITH INTAKES THAT ARE COMPLAINING OF HEADACHES AND INDIGESTION (so what is the diseased entity "in there"?) TO ME, SELDOM DOES A DSM-any SEEM TO DESCRIBE "DISEASE FALSIES"=> THE DISCRIPTIONS VERILY IN ALMOST ALL CODINGS SEEM OK/PLAUSIBLE/REFERING-TO-SOMETHING-REAL; thus

The descriptions have a value in themselves=>I also read of "thick description" (Dilthey, Wilhelm) and (artistic/"divinatory"/prophetic) interpretation from the cunning insight and whole knowledge/know-how of the LANGUAGE AND ITS CULTURE  (Schleiermacher, Friedrich), and of "triangulation" as a social sci and otherwise scientific metbod (this seems to mean making good inference from multi sources of data, the cumulation of which lead to a tendentive and persuasive conclusion); this seems to be the great FORTEE of nineteenth century scholars (Darwin, Marx, Tarde-Gabriel, Freud, and while I am traipsing into the century of my own birthorder, we might well include Max Weber). All of these thinkers give finite, while variable import to quantification as means for interpretation; THES ALL, THESE TO-DO METHODS SEEM MOST GERMANE FOR ONE (ME) WHO WOULD LIKE TO TRY VERSTEHEN ON THE MATTER OF ST. DENYS/DA, MORE WITH AN EFFORT TO SHOW 'WARTS AS BEAUTIFULLY THRILLING GROWTHS" THAN TO STRIKE FOR FACT-ON-FACT-ON-FACT IN CASE-STUDY-BUSINESS-AS-USUAL (TO THEN DESCRIBE THE HOW OF MAKING THE UNCANNY JUST CANNY/NORMAL-PRAGMATICS-IN-DOG-EAT-DOG-SOCIAL-UNIVERSE.)

I think my studies of "qualitative statistics" will permit me means to more-systematically deal with nominal/ordinal-level inference of the several multi-sourced data for "nineteenth century style" triangulation. As we perforce of history dealing with an incomplete set of data (due to the filtering of suppressed and deemed-irrelevant cultural material (especially OTHER texts), we can still make small-sample inference from the hyper-limited (also BIASED) that has survived to my atteion or potential attention. DESCRIPTION LEADING TO CHI-SQUARES, EXACT PROBABILITY TESTING, AND VARIANTS OF THE BINOMIAL SHOULD IN MULTISOURCED INFORMATION AT-HAND GIVE US A RELATIVELY PROBABLE IDEA AS TO WHAT-DID-WHAT-WHEN-AND-HOW-AND-SOMETIMES-WHY "BACK THEN." 

[EXCURSUS RE "READINGS," I.E. DIRECT- AND SIDEWAYS- READINGS "THAT EXICITE ME" FOR MY PROGRESS/PROGRESSION TOWARD A PURPOSE OF HERMENEUTIK=> The "historical method"-- the kind of method that belies the methodology of the Nestle-Aland/UBS editions of the New Testament-- the method that makes the oldest SURVIVING text dominate interpretation of the latter-docs (of which the KJV's Textus-Receptus as the Byzantine NT is-- edited as are the Vulgates too-- for "misleads-- this method while good to a point for determining ORIGINAL INTENT PER AUTHORSHIP is NOT THE ONLY METHOD THAT COULD ABET THIS INTERPRETIVE PURPOSE. . .one may regard the work of geologists and astrophysicists and lesserly archeologists and (when-"studious" not politic) the work of forensic crime investigators . . . ALL OF WHICH TAKE RESEARCH ESSENTIALLY FROM LABS THEN 'TRANSISTIONED" TO THE PAST-TENSE CASE-NEEDING-INTERPRETATION-AT-HAND; there are some works which seem to do such translational work for historical problems in the mode of social science=> I SEE THIS SOC METHOD OF TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH DONE BETTER IN RODNEY STARK'S THE-RISE-OF-CHRISTIANITY AND AS WELL BOT NOT PERFECTLY AS WELL IN THE-FIRST-URBAN-CHRISTIANS BY MEEKS, WAYNE A.; I in this regard note that the "diffusion of innovation" for reading the HERMENEUTIK WHO-WHAT-WHERE-WHEN-HOW-WHY relating to the mannerf in which DA's Neopatonism introduced into the Jesus Movement was "CONTAGIOUS/"CATCHY" ACROSS EASTERN AND ESPECIALLY WESTERN CHRISTIANITY-- TO THE POINT OF BEING FOUND 'A NAKED PRINCE' IN THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION. . . THEN DOWN DOWN DOWN FOR A LONG TIME UNTIL HE RE-EMERGES WHEN DA's ACADEMIC  F O R G E R Y  BECOMES OF RATHER DIMINISHED IMPORT  C O M P A R E D  T O  W H A T  D A  S A Y S, H I S  I D E A S!!!!!=>

This could be to use in this hermeneutic-case-study; to good assessment, case studies all have the weakness of generalizability; moreover they are best  d e s c r i p t i o n s, and here is seems corrolary that THICK DESCRIPTION is better than SKIMPS for  D E V E L O P I I N G  H Y P O T H E S E S=> which-- back-to-the-lab-present we can apply  L A B  M E T H O D S=> then-translated-back to our "crime scene forensics" of all post-hoc, historical study. . . "STUDIUM AND PUNCTUM IN PSYCHOANALYTIC WRITING: Reading Case Studies Through Roland Barthes," by an evident psychoanalyst named  Dana Amir (PSYCHOANALYTIC REVIEW 2018); Amir points that what-is-most-'grabby' in case studies is always over-tamed by the kind of description "usual" case study methods entail-- LEAVING OUT THE "SHOCKING"/SCARY/UNHEIMLICH PARTS; Amir compares this to tvhe "Punctum" of Roland Barthes' CAMERA-LUCIDA (English title for French La-Chambre-claire: Note-sur-la-photographie); Amir calls 'business as usual' as Studium (the other pole from Barthes' Punctum) in case study. . . 'tis the part of culture USUALLY shown; the ragged edge, the Punctum (the Mysterium Tremendum et Fascinens-- Otto, Rudolf), the "thrilling part," the raw, "the juicy part," which-- if I read Amir correctly-- needs emphasis=> we need to repart that seems STRANGE (in the translation of DEINA in the signal Chorus in ANTIGONE, by Sophocles Greek playwright); AND METHINKS HERE/NOWI NEED TO MENTION THAT THERE HAS ALWAYS BEEN IN ME THAT "PUNCTUM" ABOUT THE STRANGE-SIDE OF PEOPLE, THAT UN-PAT, UN-CERTAIN MYSTERY THAT EVENTUALLY SURFACES IN NEARLY EVERY ONE  ON WHOM MY ATTENTIONS LAST, WHILES-SUFFICIENTLY=> and this little speck of interest might seed a strangeness-finding-Punctum angle to why the "slant" of DA is so "sticky" (as a term for contagious, unquelled conversation). \/~~~~ c.f. Freud, Sigmund, DAS-UNHEIMLICHE, notably that this 'mysterium-tremendum-stuff' derives from a child-animism, related to HEIMLICH when the "homey" spins-- usually by uncanny-seeming repitition of usuals-- much more commonly found in fiction than in life=> THIS SUGGESTS TO ME THAT THERE IS THAT-WHICH-MAKES-HOMEY/HEIMLICH ABOUT OUR STRANGENESS-COMMON/DEINOTEES-UNHEIMLICH-PUNCTA/PUNCTUMS=> IN MY STUDY NOW, "REACH" FOR THE STRANGE " ~PLATONISM" IN DA/ST.-DENYS THAT "THRILLS" A LOT OF PEOPLE FOR WHOM THE "POSITIVES"/"THE-GIVEN-AXIOMATIC-REVELATIONS OF BELIEVE-BELIEVE-BELIEVE ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY IS "JUST NOT-QUITE THERE" (DASEIN) RE WHICH THE EIGENSEEL, THE SOUL-OF-THE-SOUL FOR CERTAIN-ONES  W A N T S  T O  G O (say) "WHEN WE  D I E" ("Being is that which flees from Death" -- Heidegger BEING AND TIME-- Macquarrie-Translation). IT WOULD SEEM THAT THERE ARE THOSE (ME?) WHO FIND THE MYSTERIUM OF THE JESUS MOVEMENT MORE IN THE THRILL-INFINITE-ECSTATIC THAN THAT WHICH DEMANDS BELIEVE-BELIEVE-BELIEVE AND "GO TO HEAVEN" THUS OR "HELL-WITH-YOU" OTHERWISE.=> THIS MUST HAVE BEEN FOR THE DA-PEOPLE  W H A T  C A U G H T  O N UNTIL ITS NAKED FORGERY "SET IN."

=> WEBER, MAX, TALKS ABOUT THE "ROUTINIZATON OF CHARISMA" AND TO ME IT LOOKS LIKE THESE O! O! O! MATTERS ARE REALLY AND EXACTLY WHAT THE BUSINESS-AS-USUAL, THE STUDIUM, THAT MAKES INEVITABLY ALL FOK NORMALIZE THRILLS & SCARES AND THE-TREMENDI/TREMENDUMS A "SO-WHAT-GET-BACK-TO-WORK-QUIT-LOOKING-OUT-THE-WINDOW, SONNYBOY! "   ]

for now 4.42pm6.26.2019Wednesday, i close off "clothes" as
vernonlynn stephens, penitent sissy