October 3, 2006
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Geometry Lesson
“Hard lessons lately.”
– Bruce Springsteen
A belated meditation for Yom Kippur, which ended at sundown yesterday:
“Whatever
the shatterings Hopkins felt threatened his and other sacred selves,
perhaps precisely because of that threat, he composed the greatest
passage on the God-relation of identity since Galatians 2:20….The
aesthetics of truth form alliances, profoundly elective affinities,
that the intellect stripped of feeling inclines to reject….
Intellection must address the matter of its feeling.”– Philip Rieff,
Sacred Order/Social Order, Vol. 1:
My Life among the Deathworks:
Illustrations of the
Aesthetics of Authority,
University of Virginia Press, 2006.
256 pages.
