How to Travel With a Salmon and Other Essays

1 T. A. Sebeok, "The Owls and Their Master," in Zoosebeotics (Bloomington, Ind.: Donald Duckworth, 1999).

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2 Lee Falk and Ray Moore, The Phantom and the Jungle Owls (Bandar City, 1936).

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3 "Text, Context, Co-Text and Cocotext," in Textuals (Texas University Press, 1978).

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4 Camille Paglia, "Love on the Chest of Drawers," Vanity Unfair 33 (1990).

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5 Erica Jong, "Dating a Text," Frequent Flyers 3 (1989).

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6 Erich Segal, "Historia Noctuae," Archiv für laternische allgemeine Kauz-wissenschaften xxxlv, 6 (1960).

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7 E. L. Doctorow, On Doctorowls (New York: Ragtime Press, 1977).

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8 Stanley Fish, Is There Any Class in This Text? (Freetext Press, 1991).

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9 "Invention of All Mothers," in Leviathans in Jurassic Park (London: Owlish Press, n.d ).

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10 Woody Allen, With Feathers (Manhattan: Getting Even Press, 1992).

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11 Leslie Fiedler, Sex and Owls on the Mississippi (New Orleans: Huckleberry, 1969).

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12 "Temps de la paillasse, temps de la commode," in Annales xxx, 1 (1960).

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13 In Edgar Allan Poe, sa vie et son oeuvre, the author raises the question of what would have happened in "The Raven" if, on the pallid bust of Pallas, three owls had lighted instead of a single raven. Professor Bonaparte subtly observes how difficult is to make one owl, let alone three, utter "Nevermore" correctly.

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14 Robert Scholes, Protocowls of Reading (Providence, R.I.: Brown University Press, 1987).

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15 For better comprehension I refer to the Urdu translation.

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16 "It is well known that some Lacanian secessionists insisted on putting elephants on the chest of drawers, bringing about the destruction of a valuable nineteenth-century credenza. This piece had formerly belonged to Little Hans, who, succumbing to the shock, died in a mental hospital in Vienna, in the delusion he was the Man of Wolves.

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17 "La parole dont je me leurre ne pourra que se taire dans l'éclatement de ce qu'elle cache. Et pourtant...." One hundred eighty minutes of silence followed while Dr. Lagache tried to extricate himself from a Borromeo knot, yelping constantly (cf. Julia Kristeva, "Chora-Chora!", in Tell Quayle, 5, 1980, from page 20 to 22).

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18 According to Richard Rorty (Philosophy and the Mirror on a Chest of Drawers, New York, Owlish Press, 1990) in the last phase of his thinking Lacan considered continuing the experimental placing of a pocket mirror on a cigar box, since in the bankruptcy of the Ecole Freudienne his chest of drawers had been confiscated.

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19 Jeffrey Nürnberg, Personal Communication (forthcoming).

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20 "Misunderstanding Kabbalah," in Journal of Aesthetics, 666, iii, nd. As a typical example of misunderstanding see Allen Ginsberg, Howl [sic], San Francisco, City Lights Books, 1956.

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21 Jacques Derrida, "Limited Ink" (unfinished paper).

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22 "Two Many Owls in Elm Street," in Gavagai, 5, 1981. In the same issue see also Hilary Putnam, "Owls in a vat," as well as Marvin Minsky, "A Society of Minks." For the whole debate see Daniel Dennett, Putnaming Owls, Kuhnisberg, Bestsellers Press, 1979.

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23 "Ambaraba in S5," in Splash! Journal of Rigid Designation, np., nd.

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24 "John Searle, "The Owl Is in the Bowl," in Cats & Mats, 2, 1987. Both Kripke and Searle had obviously been misled, perhaps by a defective critical edition. In fact they read como as Como (toponym) and inevitably their interpretation of the poem was contaminated. Obfuscated by the conviction that the owls were in Como, Kripke limited his research on the baptismal rite to the parish records of Como. This would explain his (wrong) conclusion that no Ambaraba Ciccì ever existed in Como—nothing excluding the possibility that he (or she) is alive and well in Mexico City.

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25 It is well known that Montague abandoned his fruitful research on the owls since he was later fascinated by speaking horses. Sec for instance (in Formal Philosophy, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1974: 242): "Jones seeks a horse such that it speaks and a horse such that it speaks is a(n) entity such that Jones finds it are in DS_L1, but neither K₁-entails the other in L₁."

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