March 7, 2004
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Apartments
From Wallace Stevens,
“Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction“:
It is the celestial ennui of apartments
That sends us back to the first idea, the quick
Of this invention; and yet so poisonous
Are the ravishments of truth, so fatal to
The truth itself, the first idea becomes
The hermit in a poet’s metaphors,
Who comes and goes and comes and goes all day.
May there be an ennui of the first idea?
What else, prodigious scholar, should there be?….
From Guyan Robertson,
Groups Acting on Affine Buildings
and their Boundaries:
From Plato’s Meno:
They will get it straight one day at the Sorbonne.
We shall return at twilight from the lecture
Pleased that the irrational is rational….
See Logos and Logic
and the previous entry.
