Monthly Archives: September 2011

Susanne K. Langer – Following in The Tradition of T. S. Eliot

Nobody reads this stuff anymore. Except for Gordon Lish, and UNSAID. The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are … Continue reading

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Now UNforgotten – Bellrave

T. S. Eliot: “Art never improves. . . . The mind of Europe . . . is a mind which changes, and this change is a development which abandons nothing en route, which does not superannuate either Shakespeare, or Homer, … Continue reading

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Night Watch

“There is a gap in ‘world pain’ through which the singular falls continually and forever; a body falling in observable space, deprived of the privacy of disapperance; as if privacy, moving relentlessly away, by the very sustaining power of its … Continue reading

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Nach Einmal

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Addicted to Wisdom

~ “The cup is to Dionysus what the shield is to Ares.” –Aristotle

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Unsaidquarters – Infelix Ego: Creativity and Self Torment

But although the “unhappy consciousness” does not possess this actual presence, it has, at the same time, transcended pure thought, so far as this is the abstract thought of Stoicism, which turns away from particulars altogether, and again the merely … Continue reading

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