Yes, Walter did clear that up. In fact, I had a momentary deja vu when he did so.
Walter, I see the connection with French words.
Véronique Sanson was married with Stephen Stills.
Hence "Sans son chien"...
Merry Andrew wrote:Yes, Walter did clear that up. In fact, I had a momentary deja vu when he did so.
That's not deja vu, that's repetitiveness
If I had ever been here before
I would probably know just what to do
Don't you?
If I had ever been here before on another time around the wheel
I would probably know just how to deal
With all of you
And I feel
like I've been here before
Feel
like I've been here before
And you know it makes me wonder
What's going on under the ground, hmmm
Do you know? Don't you wonder?
What's going on down under you
We have all been here before, we have all been here before
We have all been here before, we have all been here before
We have all been here before, we have all been here before
It's All Been Done
Barenaked Ladies
I met you
Before the fall of Rome
And I begged you
To let me take you home
You were wrong
I was right
You said goodbye
I said good night
It's all been done
It's all been done
It's all been done before
I knew you
Before the West was won
And I heard you say
The past was much more fun
You go your way
I'll go mine
And I'll see you
Next time
It's all been done
It's all been done
It's all been done before
And if I put my fingers here
And if I say "I love you dear"
And if I play the same three chords
Will you just yawn and say
It's all been done
It's all been done
It's all been done before
Alone and bored
On a thirtieth century night
Will I see you
On The Price Is Right?
Will I cry?
Will I smile
As you run
Down the aisle?
It's all been done
It's all been done
It's all been done before
That's not deja vu, djjd. That's reincarnation.
It seems we stood and talked like this before
We looked at each other the same way then
But I can't remember where or when
The clothes you're wearing are the clothes you wore
The smile you are smiling you were smiling then
But I can't remember where or when
Some things that happen for the first time
Seem to be happening again
And so it seems that we have met before
And laughed before and loved before
But who knows where or when?
What is Deja Vu?
The term déjà vu is French and means, literally, "already seen." Those who have experienced the feeling describe it as an overwhelming sense of familiarity with something that shouldn't be familiar at all. Say, for example, you are traveling to England for the first time. You are touring a cathedral, and suddenly it seems as if you have been in that very spot before. Or maybe you are having dinner with a group of friends, discussing some current political topic, and you have the feeling that you've already experienced this very thing -- same friends, same dinner, same topic.
Source: Merriam Webster Medical Dictionary
The phenomenon is rather complex, and there are many different theories as to why déjà vu happens. Swiss scholar Arthur Funkhouser suggests that there are several "déjà experiences" and asserts that in order to better study the phenomenon, the nuances between the experiences need to be noted. In the examples mentioned above, Funkhouser would describe the first incidence as déjà visité ("already visited") and the second as déjà vecu ("already experienced or lived through").
As much as 70 percent of the population reports having experienced some form of déjà vu. A higher number of incidents occurs in people 15 to 25 years old than in any other age group.
Déjà vu has been firmly associated with temporal-lobe epilepsy. Reportedly, déjà vu can occur just prior to a temporal-lobe epileptic attack. People suffering an epileptic seizure of this kind can experience déjà vu during the actual seizure activity or in the moments between convulsions.
Since déjà vu occurs in individuals with and without a medical condition, there is much speculation as to how and why this phenomenon happens. Several psychoanalysts attribute déjà vu to simple fantasy or wish fulfillment, while some psychiatrists ascribe it to a mismatching in the brain that causes the brain to mistake the present for the past. Many parapsychologists believe it is related to a past-life experience. Obviously, there is more investigation to be done.
Art imitates life: Deja vu experiences in prose and poetry.
Sno HN, Linszen DH, de Jonghe F.
Psychiatric Outpatient Clinic, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
The deja vu experience is a subjective phenomenon that has been described in many novels and poems. Here we review over 20 literary descriptions. These accounts are consistent with the data obtained from psychiatric literature, including various phenomenological, aetiological and psychopathogenetic aspects of the deja vu experience. The explanations, explicitly formulated by creative authors, include reincarnation, dreams, organic factors and unconscious memories. Not infrequently, an association with defence or organic factors is demonstrable on the basis of psychoanalytic or clinical psychiatric interpretation. The authors recommend that psychiatrists be encouraged to overstep the limits of psychiatric literature and read prose and poetry as well.
And I get jumped on for over-intellectualizing .... sheeesh
You and I, Timber, we is plum illitterit (or however you spel it) compared to li'l ole Angelique.
It's easy when you have the internet at your fingertips.
