January 11, 2009
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Today’s Sermon:
A Minor Metaphor … 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“
For those who prefer
stories to truth,
I recommend the
blue matrices of
Marion Zimmer Bradley’s
Darkover stories.
Bradley also wrote
The Mists of Avalon.Happy birthday to
David Wolper,
who produced the
TV version of Mists.Related material:
Diamonds Are Forever
