June 24, 2008

  • ART WARS --

    Plato's Cave, continued:

                         ... we know that we use
    Only the eye as faculty, that the mind
    Is the eye, and that this landscape of the mind


    Is a landscape only of the eye; and that
    We are ignorant men incapable
    Of the least, minor, vital metaphor....

    -- Wallace Stevens, "Crude Foyer"

                                                   ... So, so,
    O son of man, the ignorant night, the travail
    Of early morning, the mystery of the beginning
    Again and again,
                             while history is unforgiven.

    -- Delmore Schwartz,
      "In the Naked Bed, in Plato's Cave"

    The Echo in Plato's Cave:

    Somewhere between
    a flagrant triviality and
    a resplendent Trinity we
    have what might be called
    "a resplendent triviality."

    For further details, see
    "A Four-Color Theorem."