May 27, 2004
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Ineluctable
On the poetry of Geoffrey Hill:
“… why read him? Because of the things he writes about—war and peace and
sacrifice, and the search for meaning and the truths of the heart, and
for that haunting sense that, in spite of war and terror and the
indifferences that make up our daily hells, there really is some
grander reality, some ineluctable presence we keep touching. There
remains in Hill the daunting possibility that it may actually all
cohere in the end, or at least enough of it to keep us searching for
more.There is a hard edge to Hill, a strong Calvinist streak in him, and an intelligence that reminds one of Milton…..”
– Paul Mariani, review in America of Geoffrey Hill’s The Orchards of Syon
“Hello! Kinch here. Put me on to Edenville. Aleph, alpha: nought, nought, one.”
“A
very short space of time through very short times of space…. Am I walking into
eternity along Sandymount strand?”– James Joyce, Ulysses, Proteus chapter
“Time has
been unfolded into space.”“Pattern and symmetry are closely related.”
– James O. Coplien on Symmetry Breaking
“… as the critic S. L. Goldberg puts
it, ‘the chapter explores the Protean transformations of matter in time .
. . apprehensible only in the condition of flux . . . as object . . . and Stephen
himself, as subject. In the one aspect Stephen is seeking the principles of change
and the underlying substance of sensory experience; in the other, he is seeking
his self among its temporal manifestations’….– Goldberg, S.L. ‘Homer and the Nightmare of History.’ Modern Critical
Views: James Joyce. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House, 1986. 21-38.”– from the Choate site of David M. Loeb
In summary:
Joyce
See also Time Fold.(By the way, Jorn Barger seems
to have emerged from seclusion.)
