Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Put out to pasture

Rick Moody talks to Moby about the winsome anthropology of the drum machine.

(NB though I love the coinage equestrianizing as an analogy to anthropomorphizing only for horses, I think that really an equestrian is also a person; I am tempted to suggest instead the more opaque and misleading but equally appealing hippomorphizing instead!)

3 comments:

  1. Yes I'm afraid "equestrianize" (to me) most strongly suggests "raise to the relevant Roman order." I like "hippomorphize"; one is tempted to suggest equinize, horsify, or even horsen, but obviously none of these sounds enough like anthropomorphize.

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  2. And here I thought hippomorphizing was what happened to Morgan Spurlock.

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