General inability to see how things truly are, rendering life horrible ( Read more... )

( More rolls of how I roll these days, when rolling. )

The Mirror -> Tree of Life, aspects of Fanny and Alexander ( Read more... )

( Recording last week's Stalker impressions before reading others': )

I think Bloom still hasn't mentioned it, despite his obsession with both poems, but doesn't he imply - and isn't it likely - that Browning had "Tom o'Bedlam" in mind when he wrote "Childe Roland"?

In Edgar's song in King Lear, Childe Roland comes to an apparently already identified dark tower and is noticed by some kind of apparently already ( Read more... )

From Anatomy of Influence, page 21:

Kant defined the sublime as that which defies representation. To which I would add that the turbulence of the sublime needs representation lest it overwhelm us.Hence "Double rainbow! What does this mean?" You have to say what what you can't say what it is is. So you look for things that it isn't that it's ( Read more... )

31. Our Town ( Read more... )

Two passages I posted earlier, separately, (and near as I can tell the respective culminations of these two authors) now strike me as closer than I suspected:

Emerson:

Every god is there sitting in his sphere. The young mortal enters the hall of the firmament: there is he alone with them alone, they pouring on him benedictions and gifts, and ( Read more... )

From October 1921:

It had been impossible for him to enter the house, for he had heard a voice saying to him: 'Wait till I lead you in!' And so he continued to lie in the dust in front of the house, although by now, probably, everything was hopeless...One page and two days after "This ending of the Pentateuch bears a resemblance to the final scene ( Read more... )

Oh dear:

I dwell in Possibility -
A fairer House than Prose -
More numerous of Windows -
Superior - for Doors -

Of Chambers as the Cedars -
Impregnable of Eye -
and for an Everlasting Roof
The Gambrels of the Sky -

Of Visitors - the fairest -
For Occupation - This -
The spreading wide my narrow Hands
To gather Paradise -And "One need not be a ( Read more... )