St. Helena's ill Wind
Terrance F. Flaherty
Lycidas at worldnet.att.net
Thu Nov 18 11:16:13 CST 1999
Lorentzen / Nicklaus wrote:
>
> "The wind seems to be blowing cross-wise to the light incoming from Sirius,
> producing false images, as if, in Bradley's Metaphor for the Aberration, the
> Vehicle, Wind, has broken thro' some Barrier, and enter'd the no-nonsense regime
> of the Tenor, Light, whilst remaining attach'd to it. As supernatural as a
> Visitant from the Regime of Death to the sunny Colony of Life, - to be
> metaphorickal about it ...." (Mason & Dixon, p. 173)
>
> That's really uncanny! The whole issue pushes me to a certain feeling of
> 'metaphysical' uneasiness ...
>
> Shivering, KFL
"He looked up and saw Kurt Mondaugen. The wind all night,
perhaps all year, had brought them together. This is what he
came to believe, that it was the wind." GR.P.161
The wind has brought Mondaugen from V. to GR.
"Mason has begun in recent days hearing in the Wind entire
orchestral Performances, of musick distinctly not
British,--Viennese, perhaps, Hungarian, even Moorish. He
finds he cannot concentrate. The Wind...the Regime of Death
to the sunny Colony
of Life,--to be metaphorical about it..."
The dialectition and metaphor. How else but with silence can
a poet transcend the broken Life spilled into the dreams of
sanity and lost in the wind?
?spelling? Sorry sent it to the wrong party.
Terrance
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