Within this project, I refer to the non-hermeneutic as those forms and spaces of indecipherability within Jazz that, for any number of reasons, resist interpretation. |
The film's title, a metaphor for the indecipherability of Los Angeles, derives from Towne's research and Gittes's experiences as a cop in the Chinese ghetto of Los Angeles. |
The translations are far from perfect, but they are an improvement over utter indecipherability. |
But it's the kind of thing whose indecipherability is itself an element of the joy I felt in reading it. |
In truth his indecipherability had more to do with his heavy dialect and the prodigious amounts of ganja that he smoked! |
The indecipherability and lack of cohesive structure to the lyrics help to propel the surrealism of the music. |