From: afilreis@dept.english.upenn.edu (Al Filreis)
Subject: Re: explain this phrase
To: 104571.613@compuserve.com (Robert Martin)
Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 13:15:03 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: 88v@dept.english.upenn.edu
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Then there's the idea that the grass (a plant) has "leaves" - that the
poem is as common as the grass (as ubiquitous) - that the book LEAVES OF
GRASS is made of pages, which are also called "leaves" - and that all of
it, the grass, the words, the pages, MEAN something as common as could be
imagined.

| 
| I see multiple meanings:
| 
| 1)  uni-form:  a hieroglyphic in the shape of the number 1, like a blade
| grass.
| 2)  uniform in the sense that all the blades of grass look the same, they
| are uniform.  Thus a repeated hieroglyphics all being the same
| 3)  A hieroglyphic that goes anywhere, among any peoples, uniformly.  
| 
| Hieroglyphic imlies a secret message passed down from ancient time, thus
| grass has a unifying power throughout all times.
| 
| Bob
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